CVE-2021-35523 (GCVE-0-2021-35523)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-06-28 16:51 – Updated: 2024-08-04 00:40
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Summary
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.
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