ProtonVPN 1.3.3 for Windows suffers from a SYSTEM privilege escalation vulnerability through the "ProtonVPN Service" service. This service establishes an NetNamedPipe endpoint that allows arbitrary installed applications to connect and call publicly exposed methods. The "Connect" method accepts a class instance argument that provides attacker control of the OpenVPN command line. An attacker can specify a dynamic library plugin that should run for every new VPN connection. This plugin will execute code in the context of the SYSTEM user.
                
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 MITRE
                        MITRE
                    Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2018-04-16T21:00:00Z
Updated: 2024-09-16T18:19:08.447Z
Reserved: 2018-04-16T00:00:00Z
Link: CVE-2018-10169
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 NVD
                        NVD
                    Status : Modified
Published: 2018-04-16T21:29:00.467
Modified: 2024-11-21T03:40:56.430
Link: CVE-2018-10169
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                        Redhat
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