What is GHSA-8jwf-3xg6-fg66?

GHSA-8jwf-3xg6-fg66 is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with High severity. All versions of Windscribe VPN for Mac and Windows \u003c= v2.02.10 contain a local privilege...

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-8jwf-3xg6-fg66 cover?

GHSA-8jwf-3xg6-fg66 covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2020-27518. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-8jwf-3xg6-fg66?

GHSA-8jwf-3xg6-fg66 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.8, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

GHSA-8jwf-3xg6-fg66HighCVSS 7.8

All versions of Windscribe VPN for Mac and Windows <= v2.02.10 contain a local privilege...

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

May 24, 2022

Last Modified

July 5, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2020-27518 →

📋 Description

All versions of Windscribe VPN for Mac and Windows <= v2.02.10 contain a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the WindscribeService component. A low privilege user could leverage several openvpn options to execute code as root/SYSTEM.

🔗 References (4)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-27518
https://jeffs.sh/CVEs/CVE-2020-27518.txt
http://windscribe.com
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8jwf-3xg6-fg66