CWE Code: 732
Vulnerability Type: privilege_escalation
CVSS Score: 7.2
CWE Name:  Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
Summary: cyberghost 6.5.0.3180 for windows suffers from a system privilege escalation vulnerability through the "cg6service" service. this service establishes a netnamedpipe endpoint that allows arbitrary installed applications to connect and call publicly exposed methods. the "connecttovpnserver" method accepts a "connectionparams" argument that provides attacker control of the openvpn command line. an attacker can specify a dynamic library plugin that should run for every new vpn connection attempt. this plugin will execute code in the context of the system user.
Access Authentication: NONE
Access Complexity: LOW
Access Vector: LOCAL
Impact (C/I/A): COMPLETE/COMPLETE/COMPLETE
Published Date: 2018-05-02
Last Modified Date: 2019-10-03