CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-18860
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-11-30
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Description
A local privilege escalation vulnerability has been identified in the SwitchVPN client 2.1012.03 for macOS. Due to over-permissive configuration settings and a SUID binary, an attacker is able to execute arbitrary binaries as root.
Affected configurations
• switchvpn switchvpn 2.1012.03
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/150323/SwitchVPN-For-MacOS-2.1012.03-Privilege-Escalation.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Nov/38 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45854/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/150323/SwitchVPN-For-MacOS-2.1012.03-Privilege-Escalation.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Nov/38 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45854/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry