CVE-2020-27519

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    CVE-2020-27519

    Published: 30 Apr 2021Last Modified: 27 Aug 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Pritunl Client v1.2.2550.20 contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the pritunl-service component. The attack vector is: malicious openvpn config. A local attacker could leverage the log and log-append along with log injection to create or append to privileged script files and execute code as root/SYSTEM.

    References: https://github.com/pritunl/pritunl-client-electron/commit/87ceeae9b8ee415541d7d71de10675e699a76e5e, https://github.com/pritunl/pritunl-client-electron/commit/87ceeae9b8ee415541d7d71de10675e699a76e5e#diff-5c6a264bee3576f2a147b8db70332e9a16dd43d073782cf6d32a372abb22b899, https://github.com/pritunl/pritunl-client-electron/commit/c0aeb159351e5e99d752c27b87133eca299bdfce

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 89990d31cb9b80fb1c2de2a392f9f1e7eb8bd171
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.2.2550.20

    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
    CVE-2020-27519 | CVE-DB