CVE-2018-11334 describes a privilege escalation and denial-of-service vulnerability in Windscribe version 1.81. The flaw stems from the application creating a named pipe with a NULL DACL, allowing any user to interact with \\.\pipe\WindscribeService. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 7.8, indicating that a local, low-privileged attacker can achieve high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.81CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:windscribe:windscribe:1.81:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.