🛡️ CVE-2023-36673
🟠 CVSS 7.3 — High ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-319 NVD
7.3
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

An issue was discovered in Avira Phantom VPN through 2.23.1 for macOS. The VPN client insecurely configures the operating system such that all IP traffic to the VPN server's IP address is sent in plaintext outside the VPN tunnel, even if this traffic is not generated by the VPN client, while simultaneously using plaintext DNS to look up the VPN server's IP address. This allows an adversary to trick the victim into sending traffic to arbitrary IP addresses in plaintext outside the VPN tunnel. NOTE: the tunnelcrack.mathyvanhoef.com website uses this CVE ID to refer more generally to "ServerIP attack, combined with DNS spoofing, that can leak traffic to an arbitrary IP address" rather than to only Avira Phantom VPN.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.3
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE CWE-319
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2023-08-09
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2024-11-21
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
phantom-vpn 2.23.1

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