High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Apr 15, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-4008
CVE-2018-4008
Description
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.
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References
1- talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0677nvdExploitThird Party Advisory
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