CVE-2020-12828

9.8 criticalEPSS 3.3%

Critical (9.8) in pango virtual private network software development kit. EPSS 3.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in AnchorFree VPN SDK before 1.3.3.218. The VPN SDK service takes certain executable locations over a socket bound to localhost. Binding to the socket and providing a path where a malicious executable file resides leads to executing the malicious executable file with SYSTEM privileges.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 3.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 88% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-434
Published: 2020-05-21
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

pango:virtual_private_network_software_development_kit

References

https://www.pango.co/sec31944/
https://www.pango.co/sec31944/

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