VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2020-12828

CVSS score9.8 CRITICAL
EPSS probability3.28%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2020-05-21
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

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.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-434

Primary references