FKIE_CVE-2025-65199

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-12-10 19:16 - Updated: 2025-12-23 15:27
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
A command injection vulnerability exists in Windscribe for Linux Desktop App that allows a local user who is a member of the windscribe group to execute arbitrary commands as root via the 'adapterName' parameter of the 'changeMTU' function. Fixed in Windscribe v2.18.3-alpha and v2.18.8.
References
9119a7d8-5eab-497f-8521-727c672e3725https://github.com/Windscribe/Desktop-AppProduct
9119a7d8-5eab-497f-8521-727c672e3725https://github.com/Windscribe/Desktop-App/compare/v2.18.2...v2.18.3?diff=unified&w#diff-57e27ab201a1a612609087b839e03bf87a5a063ffcc3f465a6245469bc102754Patch
9119a7d8-5eab-497f-8521-727c672e3725https://github.com/Windscribe/Desktop-App/compare/v2.18.2...v2.18.3?diff=unified&w#diff-cfc5df17057ed92112ae70a42c81c57c79f434429210ff881fb0771cf8e39b4cPatch
9119a7d8-5eab-497f-8521-727c672e3725https://hackingbydoing.wixsite.com/hackingbydoing/post/windscribe-vpn-local-privilege-escalationExploit, Press/Media Coverage, Third Party Advisory
9119a7d8-5eab-497f-8521-727c672e3725https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cisagov/CSAF/develop/csaf_files/IT/white/2025/va-25-343-01.jsonThird Party Advisory
9119a7d8-5eab-497f-8521-727c672e3725https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-65199Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
windscribe windscribe *
windscribe windscribe 2.18.1
windscribe windscribe 2.18.3
windscribe windscribe 2.18.5
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