CVE-2020-5180 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Viscosity 1.8.2 on Windows and macOS, allowing an unprivileged user to load a malicious library into the OpenVPN process. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8 (High) due to its low attack complexity and the potential for high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, even though the resulting arbitrary code execution occurs with limited privileges. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
1.8.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:sparklabs:viscosity:1.8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/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.