CVE-2025-65199

Windscribe for Linux 'changeMTU' local privilege escalation

State: Published
Severity: 7.3 High
Published: Dec 10, 2025
Updated: Dec 18, 2025
Reserved: Nov 18, 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 'adapterName' parameter of the 'changeMTU' function. Fixed in Windscribe v2.18.3-alpha and v2.18.8.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	7.3 High	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	cisa-cg
3.1	7.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	cisa-cg

Weaknesses

CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Windscribe for Linux Desktop AppWindscribe	2.10.1 to before 2.18.3-alphaAffected 2.10.1 to before 2.18.8Affected 2.18.3-alphaNot affected 2.18.8Not affected

References

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