CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-6822
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-02-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Description
In PureVPN 6.0.1 on macOS, HelperTool LaunchDaemon implements an unprotected XPC service that can be abused to execute system commands as root.
Affected configurations
• purevpn purevpn (< 6.0.1)
References
- https://github.com/VerSprite/research/blob/master/advisories/VS-2018-002.md Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/VerSprite/research/blob/master/advisories/VS-2018-002.md Third Party Advisory