FKIE_CVE-2018-7281

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2018-02-21 22:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 02:02
Severity
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
CactusVPN 5.3.6 for macOS contains a root privilege escalation vulnerability through a setuid root binary called runme. The binary takes a single command line argument and passes this argument to a system() call, thus allowing low privileged users to execute commands as root.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/VerSprite/research/blob/master/advisories/VS-2018-003.mdThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/VerSprite/research/blob/master/advisories/VS-2018-003.mdThird Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
cactusvpn cactusvpn 5.3.6
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