{"id":"CVE-2026-106030","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-106030","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T01:53:04.646Z","title":"NordVPN for Windows allows local attackers to stop unprotected Windows system services and change their startup type to Manual via named pipes.","description":"NordVPN for Windows allows local attackers to stop unprotected Windows system services and change their startup type to Manual via named pipes. The NordVPN user-mode application allows a low-privileged attacker to act as a trusted process and connect to the named pipe \"\\\\.\\pipe\\nord-security\\v1\\NordVpnService\\Server\". The attacker can then invoke the \"ISettingsGrpc.StopService\" and \"ISettingsGrpc.ChangeServiceStartType\" methods with an arbitrary service name, allowing them to stop any unprotected Windows service and change its startup type. This leads to denial of service of critical system services. Services protected by Windows (PPL processes, Windows Tamper Protection), such as Windows Defender, cannot be stopped or reconfigured.\n\n\nThis issue was fixed in version 8.12","published":"2026-10-16T10:18:03.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-16T16:00:34.000Z","status":"Awaiting Analysis","sourceIdentifier":"cvd@cert.pl","cvss":{"version":"4.0","score":6.8,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:L/SA:L/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M"},"cwe":["CWE-863"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00098,"percentile":0.00769,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[{"date":"2026-10-16","score":0.00135,"percentile":0.02643}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.10%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[{"kind":"new","label":"New CVE","at":"2026-10-16T10:18:03.000Z","detail":{"score":"6.8","severity":"MEDIUM","publishedAt":"2026-10-16T10:18:03.327Z"},"summary":"New CVE, medium severity (CVSS 6.8)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/10/CVE-2026-106030","source":"cvd@cert.pl"},{"url":"https://nordvpn.com/","source":"cvd@cert.pl"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-106030","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}