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CVE-2018-4008
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2019-04-15T20:29:00.470 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:58:12.550

Summary

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.

Affected products

shimovpn — shimo_vpn

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References

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