CVE detail

CVE-2020-12828 — CVE-2020-12828

Published 2020-05-21 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor pango · Product virtual_private_network_software_development_kit · Source nvd

CRITICAL

severity

CVSS-derived band

9.8

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0328

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

87.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

An issue was discovered in AnchorFree VPN SDK before 1.3.3.218. The VPN SDK service takes certain executable locations over a socket bound to localhost. Binding to the socket and providing a path where a malicious executable file resides leads to executing the malicious executable file with SYSTEM privileges.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

cvedb.io · NVD · CISA KEV · FIRST EPSS · vendor advisories (CVE Program List v5). Informational only, no warranty — verify every remediation against the vendor advisory before acting on it. This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD, CISA, FIRST.org or any vendor named. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.