An issue was discovered in ExpressVPN on Windows. The Xvpnd.exe process (which runs as a service with SYSTEM privileges) listens on TCP port 2015, which is used as an RPC interface for communication with the client side of the ExpressVPN application. A JSON-RPC protocol over HTTP is used for communication. The JSON-RPC XVPN.GetPreference and XVPN.SetPreference methods are vulnerable to path traversal, and allow reading and writing files on the file system on behalf of the service.
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2019-01-02T18:00:00

Updated: 2019-01-02T17:57:02

Reserved: 2018-08-17T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2018-15490

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-01-02T18:29:00.653

Modified: 2023-11-07T02:53:10.300


Link: CVE-2018-15490

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