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CVE-2020-26050

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-01-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-427

Description

SaferVPN for Windows Ver 5.0.3.3 through 5.0.4.15 could allow local privilege escalation from low privileged users to SYSTEM via a crafted openssl configuration file. This issue is similar to CVE-2019-12572.

Affected products

• Safervpn: from 5.0.3.3 through 5.0.4.15

References

• https://thebinary0x1.medium.com/cve-2020-26050-safervpn-for-windows-local-privilege-escalation-da069bb1373c
• https://vimeo.com/459654003
• https://www.safervpn.com/blog/updates-to-the-safervpn-windows-application/
• https://thebinary0x1.medium.com/cve-2020-26050-safervpn-for-windows-local-privilege-escalation-da069bb1373c
• https://vimeo.com/459654003
• https://www.safervpn.com/blog/updates-to-the-safervpn-windows-application/

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