CVE-2020-27519
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-27519
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-27519.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-27519
- Published
- 2021-04-30T14:15:08Z
- Modified
- 2026-10-20T10:54:19Z
- Severity
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- 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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Pritunl Client v1.2.2550.20 contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the pritunl-service component. The attack vector is: malicious openvpn config. A local attacker could leverage the log and log-append along with log injection to create or append to privileged script files and execute code as root/SYSTEM.
- References
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- https://github.com/pritunl/pritunl-client-electron/commit/87ceeae9b8ee415541d7d71de10675e699a76e5e
- https://github.com/pritunl/pritunl-client-electron/commit/87ceeae9b8ee415541d7d71de10675e699a76e5e#diff-5c6a264bee3576f2a147b8db70332e9a16dd43d073782cf6d32a372abb22b899
- https://github.com/pritunl/pritunl-client-electron/commit/c0aeb159351e5e99d752c27b87133eca299bdfce
Affected packages
Git / github.com/pritunl/pritunl-client
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/pritunl/pritunl-client
- Events
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IntroducedLast AffectedFixedFixed
- Database specific
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Show details
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