Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Apr 26, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-10381
CVE-2018-10381
Description
TunnelBear 3.2.0.6 for Windows suffers from a SYSTEM privilege escalation vulnerability through the "TunnelBearMaintenance" service. This service establishes a NetNamedPipe endpoint that allows arbitrary installed applications to connect and call publicly exposed methods. The "OpenVPNConnect" method accepts a server list argument that provides attacker control of the OpenVPN command line. An attacker can specify a dynamic library plugin that should run for every new VPN connection attempt. This plugin will execute code in the context of the SYSTEM user.
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Affected products
2- cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:tunnelbear:3.2.0.6:*:*:*:*:windows:*:*
- Range: =3.2.0.6
Patches
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References
1- github.com/VerSprite/research/blob/master/advisories/VS-2018-022.mdnvdThird Party Advisory
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