CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-4009
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-04-15
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-494
Description
An exploitable privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Shimo VPN helper service due to improper validation of code signing. A user with local access can use this vulnerability to raise their privileges to root. An attacker would need local access to the machine to successfully exploit this bug.
Affected configurations
• shimovpn shimo vpn 4.1.5.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-494 Download of Code Without Integrity Check weakness
References
- https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0678 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0678 Exploit, Third Party Advisory