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Unscored Public exploit CVE-2020-12828 EUVD-2020-5110GHSA-g55c-xmw4-5crg

An issue was discovered in AnchorFree VPN SDK before 1.3.3.218. The VPN SDK service takes certain executable locations over a socket bound …

Published May 21, 2020 · Updated Aug 4, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

An issue was discovered in AnchorFree VPN SDK before 1.3.3.218. The VPN SDK service takes certain executable locations over a socket bound to localhost. Binding to the socket and providing a path where a malicious executable file resides leads to executing the malicious executable file with SYSTEM privileges.

Public exploits

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GitHub 1 repository

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