CVE-2025-65199

Severity CVSS v4.0:

HIGH

Type:

CWE-78 OS Command Injections

Publication date:

10/12/2025

Last modified:

23/12/2025

Description

A command injection vulnerability exists in Windscribe for Linux Desktop App that allows a local user who is a member of the windscribe group to execute arbitrary commands as root via the &#39;adapterName&#39; parameter of the &#39;changeMTU&#39; function. Fixed in Windscribe v2.18.3-alpha and v2.18.8.

Impact

Vector 4.0

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CVSS v4.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.30 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Attack Requirements (AT): Present
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Confidentiality (VC): High
Integrity (VI): High
Availability (VA): High
Confidentiality (SC): None
Integrity (SI): None
Availability (SA): None

Base Score 4.0

7.30

Severity 4.0

HIGH

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.80 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

7.80

Severity 3.x

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:windscribe:windscribe::::::linux::*	2.10.1 (including)	2.17.10 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:windscribe:windscribe:2.18.1:alpha::::linux::*
cpe:2.3:a:windscribe:windscribe:2.18.3:::::linux::
cpe:2.3:a:windscribe:windscribe:2.18.5:::::linux::

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2025-65199

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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