Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Apr 17, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-4004
CVE-2018-4004
Description
An exploitable privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Shimo VPN 4.1.5.1 helper service in the disconnectService functionality. A non-root user is able to kill any privileged process on the system. An attacker would need local access to the machine for a successful exploit.
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References
1- talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0673nvdExploitThird Party Advisory
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