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CVE-2018-10647

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-05-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-732

Description

SaferVPN 4.2.5 for Windows suffers from a SYSTEM privilege escalation vulnerability in its "SaferVPN.Service" service. The "SaferVPN.Service" service executes "openvpn.exe" using OpenVPN config files located within the current user's %LOCALAPPDATA%\SaferVPN\OvpnConfig directory. An authenticated attacker may modify these configuration files to 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.

Affected products

• Safervpn: 4.2.5

References

• https://github.com/VerSprite/research/blob/master/advisories/VS-2018-024.md
• https://github.com/VerSprite/research/blob/master/advisories/VS-2018-024.md

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