CVE-2018-4009

An exploitable privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Shimo VPN helper service due to improper validation of code signing. 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 successfully exploit this bug.

• CWE-494

• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0678Exploit, Third Party Advisory
• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0678Exploit, Third Party Advisory

Published

Apr 15, 2019

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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