CVE-2018-4004: Shimovpn Shimo VPN

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An exploitable privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Shimo VPN 4.1.5.1 helper service in the disconnectService functionality. A non-root user is able to kill any privileged process on the system. An attacker would need local access to the machine for a successful exploit.

Affected products

• Shimovpn Shimo VPN: version 4.1.5.1 only

Published 2019-04-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.