CVE-2025-26169: Ixon VPN Client

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IXON VPN Client before 1.4.4 on Windows allows Local Privilege Escalation to SYSTEM because there is code execution from a configuration file that can be controlled by a low-privileged user. There is a race condition in which a temporary configuration file, in a world-writable directory, can be overwritten.

Affected products

• Ixon VPN Client: before 1.4.4 (fixed in 1.4.4)

Published 2025-05-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.