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HIGH Hotspotshield CVE published 2026-04-04

CVE-2016-20060

CVE-2016-20060 is a high-severity vulnerability in Hotspot Shield 6.0.3, allowing local attackers to escalate privileges via an unquoted service path in the hshld service binary. Attackers can inject malicious executables by placing them in the service path, which executes with LocalSystem privileges upon service restart or system reboot. This vulnerability has significant operational impact, as it enable [truncated]