{"id":77214,"date":"2026-02-16T10:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T07:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-2542-total-vpn-win-service-exe-unquoted-search-path\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T10:47:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T07:17:00","slug":"cve-2026-2542-total-vpn-win-service-exe-unquoted-search-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-2542-total-vpn-win-service-exe-unquoted-search-path\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-2542 &#8211; Total VPN win-service.exe unquoted search path"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2026-2542<\/p>\n<p>Published :  Feb. 16, 2026, 7:17 a.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 18\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>Description : A weakness has been identified in Total VPN 0.5.29.0 on Windows. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file C:Program FilesTotal VPNwin-service.exe. Executing a manipulation can lead to unquoted search path. It is possible to launch the attack on the local host. This attack is characterized by high complexity. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.<\/p>\n<p>Severity: 7.3 | HIGH<\/p>\n<p>Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2026-2542 Published : Feb. 16, 2026, 7:17 a.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 18\u00a0minutes ago Description : A weakness has been identified in Total VPN 0.5.29.0 on Windows. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file C:Program FilesTotal VPNwin-service.exe. Executing a manipulation can lead to unquoted search path. It is possible to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}