Vulnerability · Published Jun 28, 2021 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2021-35523

High 7.8

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.7% (higher than 55% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)7.8High

Exploit odds (30 days)0.7%top 45.4% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Securepoint SSL VPN Client v2 before 2.0.32 on Windows has unsafe configuration handling that enables local privilege escalation to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. A non-privileged local user can modify the OpenVPN configuration stored under "%APPDATA%\Securepoint SSL VPN" and add a external script file that is executed as privileged user.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://github.com/Securepoint/openvpn-client/security/advisories/GHSA-v8p8-4w8f-qh34 x_refsource_MISC
https://bogner.sh/2021/04/local-privilege-escalation-in-securepoint-ssl-vpn-client-2-0-30/ x_refsource_MISC
20210629 CVE-2021-35523: Local Privilege Escalation in Securepoint SSL VPN Client 2.0.30 mailing-list, x_refsource_FULLDISC
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163320/Securepoint-SSL-VPN-Client-2.0.30-Local-Privilege-Escalation.html x_refsource_MISC