### [CVE-2018-4006](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-4006)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Product&message=Shimo%20VPN&color=blue)
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### Description

An exploitable privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Shimo VPN 4.1.5.1 helper service in the writeConfig functionality. A non-root user is able to write a file anywhere on the system. 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 exploit it successfully.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0675
- https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0675

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