
PureVPN on Linux: Researcher Finds Security and Anonymity Issues
An independent researcher named Andreas, who runs the blog Anagogistis , has discovered serious vulnerabilities in Pure VPN’s Linux clients that compromise basic anonymity and traffic security. The issues affect both the graphical (2.10.0) and console (2.0.1) versions. Both were tested on Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS. The main vulnerability arises because when reconnecting to Wi-Fi or waking the system from sleep mode, the user’s true IPv6 address becomes visible. In the console client with the Internet Kill Switch feature enabled, the service automatically reports the connection resumption, but during this time the system receives IPv6 routes via Router Advertisement, causing packets to bypass










