The 2020 Pwnie Nominee For Best Privilege Escalation Bug

ZombieVPN, Breaking That Internet Security

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An issue was discovered in AnchorFree VPN SDK before 1.3.3.218. The VPN SDK service takes certain executable locations over a socket bound to localhost. Binding to the socket and providing a path where a malicious executable file resides leads to executing the malicious executable file with SYSTEM privileges.

ZombieVPN, Breaking That Internet Security