Vulnerability database
Every flaw the U.S. government’s cybersecurity agency (CISA) has confirmed attackers are using, plus the new WordPress plugin and theme bugs published each day, sorted by what they mean for a small business. We refresh it twice a day. If you see something your website or office runs, tell us.
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Oct 16, 2026NordVPN for Windows allows local attackers to stop unprotected Windows system services and change their startup type to Manual via named pipes.CVE-2026-106030 · Other software · Nord Security · reported by cvd@cert.plMedium 6.8
NordVPN for Windows allows local attackers to stop unprotected Windows system services and change their startup type to Manual via named pipes. The NordVPN user-mode application allows a low-privileged attacker to act as a trusted process and connect to the named pipe "\\.\pipe\nord-security\v1\NordVpnService\Server". The attacker can then invoke the "ISettingsGrpc.StopService" and "ISettingsGrpc.ChangeServiceStartType" methods with an arbitrary service name, allowing them to stop any unprotected Windows service and change its startup type. This leads to denial of service of critical system services. Services protected by Windows (PPL processes, Windows Tamper Protection), such as Windows Defender, cannot be stopped or reconfigured. This issue was fixed in version 8.12
- Product
- NordVPN
- What to do
- Apply the vendor’s update. The NVD record links to the advisory.
May 25, 2026Nord VPN 6.14.31 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to crash the application by submitting an excessively long strCVE-2018-25368 · Other software · Nordvpn · reported by VulnCheckHigh 8.7
Nord VPN 6.14.31 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to crash the application by submitting an excessively long string in the password field. Attackers can paste a buffer of repeated characters into the password input field to trigger an application crash when attempting to authenticate.
- Product
- NordVPN
- What to do
- Apply the vendor’s update. The NVD record links to the advisory.
Full record and what to do →NVD recordnordvpn.comexploit-db.com
Mar 21, 2026NordVPN 6.19.6 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by submitting an excessively long string in the eCVE-2019-25572 · Other software · Nordvpn · reported by VulnCheckMedium 6.9
NordVPN 6.19.6 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by submitting an excessively long string in the email input field. Attackers can paste a buffer of 100,000 characters into the email field during login to trigger an application crash.
- Product
- NordVPN
- What to do
- Apply the vendor’s update. The NVD record links to the advisory.
Full record and what to do →NVD recorddownloads.nordcdn.comnordvpn.com
Jan 28, 2026Nord VPN 6.31.13.0 contains an unquoted service path vulnerability in its nordvpn-service that allows local attackers to execute code with elevated privileges.CVE-2020-36992 · Other software · nordvpn · reported by VulnCheckHigh 8.5
Nord VPN 6.31.13.0 contains an unquoted service path vulnerability in its nordvpn-service that allows local attackers to execute code with elevated privileges. Attackers can exploit the unquoted binary path during system startup or reboot to potentially run malicious code with LocalSystem permissions.
- Product
- nordvpn
- What to do
- Apply the vendor’s update. The NVD record links to the advisory.
Full record and what to do →NVD recordnordvpn.comexploit-db.com
Sep 7, 2018An exploitable code execution vulnerability exists in the connect functionality of NordVPN 6.14.28.0.CVE-2018-3952 · Other software · Talos · reported by talos-cna@cisco.comHigh 8.8
An exploitable code execution vulnerability exists in the connect functionality of NordVPN 6.14.28.0. A specially crafted configuration file can cause a privilege escalation, resulting in the execution of arbitrary commands with system privileges.
- Product
- NordVPN
- What to do
- Apply the vendor’s update. The NVD record links to the advisory.
Full record and what to do →NVD recordsecurityfocus.comtalosintelligence.com
Apr 16, 2018NordVPN 6.12.7.0 for Windows suffers from a SYSTEM privilege escalation vulnerability through the "nordvpn-service" service.CVE-2018-10170 · Other software · Nordvpn · reported by MITRECritical 9.8
NordVPN 6.12.7.0 for Windows suffers from a SYSTEM privilege escalation vulnerability through the "nordvpn-service" service. This service establishes an NetNamedPipe endpoint that allows arbitrary installed applications to connect and call publicly exposed methods. The "Connect" method accepts a class instance argument that provides attacker control of the OpenVPN command line. An attacker can specify a dynamic library plugin that should run for every new VPN connection attempt. This plugin will execute code in the context of the SYSTEM user.
- Product
- Nordvpn
- What to do
- Apply the vendor’s update. The NVD record links to the advisory.
Mar 27, 2018NordVPN 3.3.10 for macOS suffers from a root privilege escalation vulnerability.CVE-2018-9105 · Other software · Nordvpn · reported by MITREHigh 8.8
NordVPN 3.3.10 for macOS suffers from a root privilege escalation vulnerability. The vulnerability stems from its privileged helper tool's implemented XPC service. This XPC service is responsible for receiving and processing new OpenVPN connection requests from the main application. Unfortunately this XPC service is not protected, which allows arbitrary applications to connect and send it XPC messages. An attacker can send a crafted XPC message to the privileged helper tool requesting it make a new OpenVPN connection. Because he or she controls the contents of the XPC message, the attacker can specify the location of the openvpn executable, which could point to something malicious they control located on disk. Without validation of the openvpn executable, this will give the attacker code execution in the context of the privileged helper tool.
- Product
- Nordvpn
- What to do
- Apply the vendor’s update. The NVD record links to the advisory.
Full record and what to do →NVD recordgithub.comexchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Where this comes from: the exploited list is CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Everything else is the whole National Vulnerability Database, where each record is published by the team that found the bug (Wordfence, Patchstack, WPScan, the vendors themselves and others); we show who. Exploit odds are FIRST’s EPSS, updated daily. Titles and categories are ours, so check the linked record before acting on a detail. For a write-up of the big ones, see our advisories. Every vendor, and every WordPress plugin and theme with a recorded flaw, also has its own page. All of it is free to reuse as JSON, CSV or RSS.
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