CVE-2018-4004

An exploitable privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Shimo VPN 4.1.5.1 helper service in the disconnectService functionality. A non-root user is able to kill any privileged process on the system. An attacker would need local access to the machine for a successful exploit...

0 day: a detailed analysis of the macOS platform Shimo VPN Multiple privilege elevation vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

One, overview The Cisco Talos team recently disclosed Shimo VPN help tool Helper Tool a series of holes. Shimo VPN is the macOS platform a very popular VPN client that can in one application to connect multiple VPN accounts. These particular vulnerabilities were in the help tool, this is the Shim...

CVE-2018-4004

CVE-2018-4004 is a privilege-escalation vulnerability in the Shimo VPN helper service, specifically the disconnectService function, on macOS Shimo VPN 4.1.5.1. A non-root local user can terminate a privileged process by supplying a targeted PID, enabling privilege escalation. The issue arises fro...