ProtonVPN, NordVPN Flaws Open Door to Privilege Escalation

UPDATE A pair of vulnerabilities in the ProtonVPN and NordVPN VPN clients have been uncovered, which allow attackers to execute code as an administrator on targeted Microsoft Windows machines. In both cases CVE-2018-3952 NordVPN and CVE-2018-4010 ProntonVPN, the clients have the same design,...

NordVPN VPN client connect privilege escalation vulnerability

Summary An exploitable code execution vulnerability exists in the connect functionality of NordVPN 6.14.28.0. A specially crafted configuration file can cause a privilege escalation, resulting in the execution of arbitrary commands with system privileges. Tested Versions NordVPN 6.14.28.0 Product...

CVE-2018-10169

Concretely, CVE-2018-10169 affects ProtonVPN for Windows (ProtonVPN 1.3.3) via the ProtonVPN Service. The service exposes a NetNamedPipe endpoint; the Connect method passes an OpenVPN configuration to a helper that runs with SYSTEM privileges. An attacker can inject a malicious OpenVPN config (e....