CWE Code: 732
Vulnerability Type: privilege_escalation
CVSS Score: 10.0
CWE Name:  Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
Summary: protonvpn 1.3.3 for windows suffers from a system privilege escalation vulnerability through the "protonvpn service" service. this service establishes an netnamedpipe endpoint that allows arbitrary installed applications to connect and call publicly exposed methods. the "connect" method accepts a class instance 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. this plugin will execute code in the context of the system user.
Access Authentication: NONE
Access Complexity: LOW
Access Vector: NETWORK
Impact (C/I/A): COMPLETE/COMPLETE/COMPLETE
Published Date: 2018-04-16
Last Modified Date: 2019-10-03