CVE-2018-7281

2018-02-2122:00:00

mitre

www.cve.org

9 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

42.1%

JSON

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

github.com/VerSprite/research/blob/master/advisories/VS-2018-003.md