CVE-2018-4008

Summary

An exploitable privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Shimo VPN 4.1.5.1 helper service in the RunVpncScript command. The command takes a user-supplied script argument and executes it under root context. A user with local access can use this vulnerability to raise their privileges to root. An attacker would need local access to the machine to successfully exploit this bug.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
n/aShimo VPNShimo VPN 4.1.5.1affected

Weaknesses

  • local privilege escalation

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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