CVE-2018-4010 is a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting ProtonVPN VPN client version 1.5.1. A specially crafted configuration file can be used to execute arbitrary commands with system privileges. This high-severity vulnerability (CVSS 7.8) requires user interaction (UI:R) but has low attack complexity (AC:L), allowing for full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H/I:H/A:H). While not listed in KEV and lacking public exploit code in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness of its potential impact.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:protonvpn:protonvpn:1.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
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.