Security Advisory

CVE-2018-4008

7.8
HIGH

Vulnerability Description

An exploitable privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Shimo VPN 4.1.5.1 helper service in the RunVpncScript command. The command takes a user-supplied script argument and executes it under root context. 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.
Published Date April 15, 2019
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory