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.

CVSS v3 9.8 CRITICAL
CVSS v2.0 10.0 HIGH

9.8^/10

CVSS v3 : CRITICAL

Vector : AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

10.0^/10

CVSS v2.0 : HIGH

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

Exploitability : 10.0 / Impact : 10.0

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity LOW

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact COMPLETE

Integrity Impact COMPLETE

Availability Impact COMPLETE

References

Link	Resource
https://github.com/VerSprite/research/blob/master/advisories/VS-2018-007.md	Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/VerSprite/research/blob/master/advisories/VS-2018-007.md	Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

AND

cpe:2.3:a:cactusvpn:cactusvpn:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

cpe:2.3:o:apple:macos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

21 Nov 2024, 04:12

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
References	~~() https://github.com/VerSprite/research/blob/master/advisories/VS-2018-007.md - Third Party Advisory~~	() https://github.com/VerSprite/research/blob/master/advisories/VS-2018-007.md - Third Party Advisory

Information

Published : 2018-03-05 20:29

Updated : 2024-11-21 04:12

NVD link : CVE-2018-7493

Mitre link : CVE-2018-7493

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2018-7493

JSON object : View

Products Affected

cactusvpn

cactusvpn

apple

macos

CWE

NVD-CWE-noinfo

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