CVE-2018-4006

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

An exploitable privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Shimo VPN 4.1.5.1 helper service in the writeConfig functionality. A non-root user is able to write a file anywhere on the system. 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 exploit it successfully.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-20

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Apr 17, 2019
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2018-4006: High severity, CVSS 7.8 | Vulnix