PT-2025-50365 · Unknown · Windscribe

Hackingbydoing · Published 2025-12-10 · Updated 2025-12-23 · CVE-2025-65199

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Windscribe versions prior to 2.18.3-alpha and prior to 2.18.8

Description A command injection issue exists in Windscribe for Linux Desktop App. A local user who is a member of the windscribe group can execute arbitrary commands as root. This is possible through the adapterName parameter of the changeMTU() function.

Recommendations Update to Windscribe version 2.18.3-alpha or later. Update to Windscribe version 2.18.8 or later.

Exploit

Fix

OS Command Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-78

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-65199

Affected Products

Windscribe

References · 10

• 🔥 https://hackingbydoing.wixsite.com/hackingbydoing/post/windscribe-vpn-local-privilege-escalation · Exploit
• https://github.com/Windscribe/Desktop-App/compare/v2.18.2...v2.18.3?diff=unified&w#diff-cfc5df17057ed92112ae70a42c81c57c79f434429210ff881fb0771cf8e39b4c · Patch
• https://github.com/Windscribe/Desktop-App/compare/v2.18.2...v2.18.3?diff=unified&w#diff-57e27ab201a1a612609087b839e03bf87a5a063ffcc3f465a6245469bc102754 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-65199 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-65199 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-65199 · Security Note
• https://github.com/Windscribe/Desktop-App · Note
• https://t.me/cveNotify/146671 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/2000248616448090341 · Twitter Post
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cisagov/CSAF/develop/csaf_files/IT/white/2025/va-25-343-01.json · Note