5 CVEs matched to Hotspot Shield by name in NVD, none on CISA's Known Exploited list.
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1 CVE has an estimated 10%-or-higher chance of having already been exploited despite not appearing on CISA's KEV catalog. KEV is a curated record of confirmed cases rather than a complete census, so this is where its coverage is likely thinnest — an estimate from EPSS history, not a finding. Based on a median of 2 EPSS observations per CVE.
Likely-exploited estimates here rest on a median of 2 EPSS observations per CVE — too little history to read as a trend yet. It deepens daily as scores are collected.
Hotspot Shield runs a webserver with a static IP address 127.0.0.1 and port 895. The web server uses JSONP and hosts sensitive information including configurati…
Improper directory permissions in the Hotspot Shield VPN client software for Windows 10.3.0 and earlier may allow an authorized user to potentially enable escal…
Panda Security Dome Link Following Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected instal…
| Year | Critical | High | Medium | Low | Unscored | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
EPSS is FIRST's estimate of the chance a CVE is exploited in the next 30 days. It measures likelihood, not impact.
| CVE | EPSS | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| CVE-2018-6460 | 11% | 96% |
| CVE-2020-17365 | 0.4% | 30% |
| CVE-2025-40710 | 0.3% | 23% |
| CVE-2024-13043 | 0.3% | 19% |
| CVE-2016-20060 | 0.2% | 3.9% |
Hotspot Shield 6.0.3 contains an unquoted service path vulnerability in the hshld service binary that allows local attackers to escalate privileges by injecting malicious executables. Attackers can pl…
Host Header Injection (HHI) vulnerability in the Hotspot Shield VPN client, which can induce unexpected behaviour when accessing third-party web applications through the VPN tunnel. Although such appl…
Host Header Injection (HHI) vulnerability in the Hotspot Shield VPN client, which can induce unexpected behaviour when accessing third-party web applications th…
Hotspot Shield 6.0.3 contains an unquoted service path vulnerability in the hshld service binary that allows local attackers to escalate privileges by injecting…
Panda Security Dome Link Following Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of Panda Security Dome. An attac…
Improper directory permissions in the Hotspot Shield VPN client software for Windows 10.3.0 and earlier may allow an authorized user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access. The…
Hotspot Shield runs a webserver with a static IP address 127.0.0.1 and port 895. The web server uses JSONP and hosts sensitive information including configuration. User controlled input is not suffici…