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CVE-2022-25372

• 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: 2022-02-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-269

Description

Pritunl Client through 1.2.3019.52 on Windows allows local privilege escalation, related to an ACL entry for CREATOR OWNER in platform_windows.go.

Affected products

• Pritunl-Client-Electron: before 1.2.3019.52a — fixed in 1.2.3019.52a

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Pritunl-Client-Electron 1.2.3019.52a. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/pritunl/pritunl-client-electron/blob/caa78d626198b6961f3f39eca2acd39064c2df96/CHANGES#L6
• https://github.com/pritunl/pritunl-client-electron/commit/e16d47437f8ef62546aa00edb0d64be2a7d2205b
• https://rhinosecuritylabs.com/penetration-testing/cve-2022-25372-local-privilege-escalation-in-pritunl-vpn-client/
• https://github.com/pritunl/pritunl-client-electron/blob/caa78d626198b6961f3f39eca2acd39064c2df96/CHANGES#L6
• https://github.com/pritunl/pritunl-client-electron/commit/e16d47437f8ef62546aa00edb0d64be2a7d2205b
• https://rhinosecuritylabs.com/penetration-testing/cve-2022-25372-local-privilege-escalation-in-pritunl-vpn-client/

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