CVE-2018-15490
An issue was discovered in ExpressVPN on Windows. The Xvpnd.exe process (which runs as a service with SYSTEM privileges) listens on TCP port 2015, which is used as an RPC interface for communication with the client side of the ExpressVPN application. A JSON-RPC protocol over HTTP is used for communication. The JSON-RPC XVPN.GetPreference and XVPN.SetPreference methods are vulnerable to path traversal, and allow reading and writing files on the file system on behalf of the service.
Published:Jan 2, 2019
Last Modified:Nov 21, 2024
EPS:Jan 2, 2019
EPSS Score:0.00087
CVSS Score:7.1
Affected Products
Vendor
Product
Action
Vendor
Expressvpn
Product
Expressvpn
Expressvpn
Expressvpn
Vendor
Microsoft
Product
Windows
Microsoft
Windows
Exploits
No exploit reference
Common Weakness Enumeration
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Related CVEs
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
Low
High
User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Low
High
Integrity
None
Low
High
Availability
None
Low
High
