CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-18656

7.8 HIGH Published 2018-10-26 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-10-26
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-522

Description

The PureVPN client before 6.1.0 for Windows stores Login Credentials (username and password) in cleartext. The location of such files is %PROGRAMDATA%\purevpn\config\login.conf. Additionally, all local users can read this file.

Affected configurations

• purevpn purevpn (< 6.1.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials weakness

References