Windscribe for Linux 'changeMTU' local privilege escalation
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.3epss 1.3%
exploitation probability
1.3%top 32% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
A command injection vulnerability exists in Windscribe for Linux Desktop App that allows a local user who is a member of the windscribe group to execute arbitrary commands as root via the 'adapterName' parameter of the 'changeMTU' function. Fixed in Windscribe v2.18.3-alpha and v2.18.8.
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
Windscribe · Windscribe for Linux Desktop AppReferences
https://github.com/Windscribe/Desktop-Apphttps://github.com/Windscribe/Desktop-App/compare/v2.18.2...v2.18.3?diff=unified&w#diff-57e27ab201a1a612609087b839e03bf87a5a063ffcc3f465a6245469bc102754https://github.com/Windscribe/Desktop-App/compare/v2.18.2...v2.18.3?diff=unified&w#diff-cfc5df17057ed92112ae70a42c81c57c79f434429210ff881fb0771cf8e39b4chttps://hackingbydoing.wixsite.com/hackingbydoing/post/windscribe-vpn-local-privilege-escalationhttps://raw.githubusercontent.com/cisagov/CSAF/develop/csaf_files/IT/white/2025/va-25-343-01.jsonhttps://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-65199