High
Security advisory
Privilege escalation via arbitrary file write in pritunl electron client 1.0.1116.6 through v1.2.2550.20. Successful exploitation of the issue may allow an attacker to execute code on the effected system with root privileges.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-25989
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:07 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Privilege escalation via arbitrary file write in pritunl electron client 1.0.1116.6 through v1.2.2550.20. Successful exploitation of the issue may allow an attacker to execute code on the effected system with root privileges.
osv:CVE-2020-25989
Complete source record
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"published_at": "2020-11-19T21:15:12.2+00:00"
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