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NordVPN for Windows

Privilege Escalation

CVE ID

CVE-2018-10170

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 OpenVpncommand 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.

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Vendor Response

The vendor will review and update

Disclosure Timeline

  • Vendor disclosure via email

  • Vendor response

  • Vendor response via email

  • Vendor notified of the advisory release