CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-17809
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-12-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-426
Description
In Golden Frog VyprVPN before 2.15.0.5828 for macOS, the vyprvpnservice launch daemon has an unprotected XPC service that allows attackers to update the underlying OpenVPN configuration and the arguments passed to the OpenVPN binary when executed. An attacker can abuse this vulnerability by forcing the VyprVPN application to load a malicious dynamic library every time a new connection is made.
Affected configurations
• goldenfrog vyprvpn (< 2.15.0.5828)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path weakness
References
- https://github.com/VerSprite/research/blob/master/advisories/VS-2017-007.md Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/VerSprite/research/blob/master/advisories/VS-2017-007.md Third Party Advisory