CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-7493

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2018-03-05 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-03-05
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

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.

Affected configurations

• cactusvpn cactusvpn (<= 6.0)

References