VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2020-27519
Pritunl Client v1.2.2550.20 contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the pritunl-service component.
HIGH 7.8EPSS 0.35%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.35%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Pritunl Client v1.2.2550.20 contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the pritunl-service component. The attack vector is: malicious openvpn config. A local attacker could leverage the log and log-append along with log injection to create or append to privileged script files and execute code as root/SYSTEM.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.35% probability · 28th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-269
- Affected
- pritunl/pritunl-client-electron
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- https://github.com/pritunl/pritunl-client-electron/commit/87ceeae9b8ee415541d7d71de10675e699a76e5ePatch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/pritunl/pritunl-client-electron/commit/87ceeae9b8ee415541d7d71de10675e699a76e5e#diff-5c6a264bee3576f2a147b8db70332e9a16dd43d073782cf6d32a372abb22b899Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/pritunl/pritunl-client-electron/commit/c0aeb159351e5e99d752c27b87133eca299bdfcePatch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/pritunl/pritunl-client-electron/commit/87ceeae9b8ee415541d7d71de10675e699a76e5ePatch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/pritunl/pritunl-client-electron/commit/87ceeae9b8ee415541d7d71de10675e699a76e5e#diff-5c6a264bee3576f2a147b8db70332e9a16dd43d073782cf6d32a372abb22b899Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/pritunl/pritunl-client-electron/commit/c0aeb159351e5e99d752c27b87133eca299bdfcePatch, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.