CVE-2018-4004

An exploitable privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Shimo VPN 4.1.5.1 helper service in the disconnectService functionality. A non-root user is able to kill any privileged process on the system. An attacker would need local access to the machine for a successful exploit.

• CWE-20

• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0673Exploit, Third Party Advisory
• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0673Exploit, Third Party Advisory

Published

Apr 17, 2019

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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