cve/2018/CVE-2018-4008.md

### [CVE-2018-4008](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-4008)
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### Description

An exploitable privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Shimo VPN 4.1.5.1 helper service in the RunVpncScript command. The command takes a user-supplied script argument and executes it under root context. A user with local access can use this vulnerability to raise their privileges to root. An attacker would need local access to the machine to successfully exploit this bug.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0677

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.