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CVE-2018-10204

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-10204 describes a SYSTEM privilege escalation vulnerability in PureVPN 6.0.1 for Windows. An authenticated attacker can exploit weak permissions on the OpenVPN configuration file to inject a malicious dynamic library, which the "sevpnclient" service will execute with SYSTEM privileges. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 8.8, indicating a network-exploitable flaw with low attack complexity and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
6.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:purevpn:purevpn:6.0.1:*:*:*:*:windows:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.8HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.54%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
72.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0154 is in the 70th percentile among its peer group of 17,823 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

github.com / VerSprite/research/blob/master/advisories/VS-2018-021.md
Third Party Advisory