Aggregates CVE and security vulnerability intelligence across all purevpn-related products, including CVSS, EPSS, publication dates, and vulnerability intelligence data.
Disclosed issues often relate to vendor risk path handling; exposure may include vendor impact file overwrite in vendor surface production workloads and vendor surface software deployment contexts.
| CVE | Summary | Source | Max CVSS | EPSS % | Published | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2023-48957 | PureVPN Linux client 2.0.2-Productions fails to properly handle DNS queries, allowing them to bypass the VPN tunnel and be sent directly to the ISP or default DNS servers. | [email protected] | 5.3 | 0.44% | 2024-08-25 | 2025-03-14 |
| CVE-2018-18656 | The PureVPN client before 6.1.0 for Windows stores Login Credentials (username and password) in cleartext. The location of such files is %PROGRAMDATA%\purevpn\config\login.conf. Additionally, all local users can read this file. | [email protected] | 7.8 | 0.36% | 2018-10-26 | 2024-11-21 |
| CVE-2018-10204 | PureVPN 6.0.1 for Windows suffers from a SYSTEM privilege escalation vulnerability in its "sevpnclient" service. When configured to use the OpenVPN protocol, the "sevpnclient" service executes "openvpn.exe" using the OpenVPN config file located at %PROGRAMDATA%\purevpn\config\config.ovpn. This file allows "Write" permissions to users in the "Everyone" group. An authenticated attacker may modify this file to specify a dynamic library plugin that should run for every new VPN connection attempt. Th | [email protected] | 8.8 | 1.54% | 2018-04-18 | 2024-11-21 |
| CVE-2018-7484 | An issue was discovered in PureVPN through 5.19.4.0 on Windows. The client installation grants the Everyone group Full Control permission to the installation directory. In addition, the PureVPNService.exe service, which runs under NT Authority\SYSTEM privileges, tries to load several dynamic-link libraries using relative paths instead of the absolute path. When not using a fully qualified path, the application will first try to load the library from the directory from which the application is st | [email protected] | 7.8 | 2.40% | 2018-02-26 | 2024-11-21 |
| CVE-2018-6822 | In PureVPN 6.0.1 on macOS, HelperTool LaunchDaemon implements an unprotected XPC service that can be abused to execute system commands as root. | [email protected] | 9.8 | 1.54% | 2018-02-07 | 2024-11-21 |