High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published May 2, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-10646
CVE-2018-10646
Description
CyberGhost 6.5.0.3180 for Windows suffers from a SYSTEM privilege escalation vulnerability through the "CG6Service" service. This service establishes a NetNamedPipe endpoint that allows arbitrary installed applications to connect and call publicly exposed methods. The "ConnectToVpnServer" method accepts a "connectionParams" 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
1- Range: 6.5.0.3180
Patches
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References
1- github.com/VerSprite/research/blob/master/advisories/VS-2018-023.mdnvdThird Party Advisory
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