VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2020-12828
The VPN SDK service takes certain executable locations over a socket bound to localhost.
CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 3.28%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (3.28%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
An issue was discovered in AnchorFree VPN SDK before 1.3.3.218. The VPN SDK service takes certain executable locations over a socket bound to localhost. Binding to the socket and providing a path where a malicious executable file resides leads to executing the malicious executable file with SYSTEM privileges.
- CVSS 3.1
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 3.28% probability · 88th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-434
- Affected
- pango/virtual private network software development kit
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- https://www.pango.co/sec31944/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.pango.co/sec31944/Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.