Intro This is a writeup about a user to root privilege escalation due to a race condition in Windscribe VPN's software. What is Windscribe? Windscribe is a smaller VPN provider, they have about 69M users according to their tweet that was published today. They are notorious on X/Twitter for …
Just something to keep in mind for those not in the security space. When a security company does an audit, its generally a checklist of commercial and custom security software along with a couple people poking around looking for more manual harder to find stuff. But there’s a reason companies like Mullvad have a bug bounty program… Just because cure53 didn’t find it, it doesn’t mean some bored hacker won’t…
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