High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Apr 15, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-4009
CVE-2018-4009
Description
An exploitable privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Shimo VPN helper service due to improper validation of code signing. 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-2018-0678nvdExploitThird Party Advisory
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