CVE-2015-3887: Proxychains-NG Project Proxychains-NG

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Untrusted search path vulnerability in ProxyChains-NG before 4.9 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse libproxychains4.so library in the current working directory, which is referenced in the LD_PRELOAD path.

Affected products

• Proxychains-NG Project Proxychains-NG: up to and including 4.8.1

Published 2017-09-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.