GCVE-110-CLOUD-2022-0037

Advisory Published

Vulnetix · Advisory published April 12, 2022

The AWS VPN Client application is affected by an arbitrary file write as SYSTEM, which can lead to privilege escalation and an information disclosure vulnerability that allows the user's Net-NTLMv2 hash to be leaked via a UNC path in a VPN configuration file.

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Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions	Platforms
AWS	Cloud Services	—	—
AWS	VPN	—	—
AWS	Config	—	—

Aliases

CVE-2022-25165

References

Privilege Escalation to SYSTEM in AWS VPN Client

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