[VS-2018-018] NordVPN for Windows Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
CVE ID
CVE-2018-10170
CVSS Score
Pending
Vendor
NordVPN
Product
NordVPN for Windows
Product Version
6.12.7.0
Vulnerability Details
NordVPN for Windows suffers from a SYSTEM privilege escalation vulnerability through the nordvpn-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 attempt. This plugin will execute code in the context of the SYSTEM user.
Vendor Response
Vendor will review and update
Disclosure Timeline
- 03-21-2018 - Vendor disclosure via email
- 03-21-2018 - Vendor response
- 03-21-2018 - Vendor response via email
- 04-16-2018 - Vendor notified of the advisory release
Credit
Fabius Watson of VerSprite Security (@FabiusArtrel)