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CVE-2018-7493

CactusVPN through 6.0 for macOS suffers from a root privilege escalation vulnerability in its privileged helper tool. The privileged helper tool implements an XPC interface, which allows arbitrary applications to execute system commands as root.

Published

2018-03-05T20:29:00.333

Last Modified

2024-11-21T04:12:14.383

Status

Modified

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.0: 9.8 (CRITICAL)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: COMPLETE
Integrity Impact: COMPLETE
Availability Impact: COMPLETE

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

10.0

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
NVD-CWE-noinfo

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	cactusvpn	cactusvpn	≤ 6.0	Yes
Operating System	apple	macos	*	No

References

https://github.com/VerSprite/research/blob/master/advisories/VS-2018-007.md Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://github.com/VerSprite/research/blob/master/advisories/VS-2018-007.md Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)