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CVE-2018-15490
HIGH · CVSS 7.1
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2019-01-02T18:29:00.653 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:42:37.000

Summary

An issue was discovered in ExpressVPN on Windows. The Xvpnd.exe process (which runs as a service with SYSTEM privileges) listens on TCP port 2015, which is used as an RPC interface for communication with the client side of the ExpressVPN application. A JSON-RPC protocol over HTTP is used for communication. The JSON-RPC XVPN.GetPreference and XVPN.SetPreference methods are vulnerable to path traversal, and allow reading and writing files on the file system on behalf of the service.

Affected products

expressvpn — expressvpn

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References

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