CVE-2017-20112 — A vulnerability has been found in IVPN Client 2

A vulnerability has been found in IVPN Client 2.6.6120.33863 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. The manipulation of the argument --up cmd leads to improper privilege management. The attack needs to be approached locally. The ex

01What is this vulnerability?

A vulnerability has been found in IVPN Client 2.6.6120.33863 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. The manipulation of the argument --up cmd leads to improper privilege management. The attack needs to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. Upgrading to version 2.6.2 is able to address this issue. It is…

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
IVPN	Client	2.6.6120.33863

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2022-06-29T06:55:42.000Z
• Last modified: 2025-04-15T14:10:12.158Z

09References

• seclists.org — http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Feb/14
• github.com — https://github.com/kacperszurek/exploits/blob/master/IVPN/ivpn_privilege_escalat…
• vuldb.com — https://vuldb.com/?id.96655