Security Advisory

CVE-2018-4008

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2019-04-15 19:46:21
Last updated 2024-08-05 04:57:24
Assigner talos
CVSS score 9.3
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.