CVE-2018-10170: Nordvpn

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

NordVPN 6.12.7.0 for Windows suffers from a SYSTEM privilege escalation vulnerability through the "nordvpn-service" service. This service establishes an NetNamedPipe endpoint that allows arbitrary installed applications to connect and call publicly exposed methods. The "Connect" method accepts a class instance argument that provides attacker control of the OpenVPN command line. An attacker can specify a dynamic library plugin that should run for every new VPN connection attempt. This plugin will execute code in the context of the SYSTEM user.

Affected products

• Nordvpn Nordvpn: version 6.12.7.0 only

Published 2018-04-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.