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CVE-2018-7281
HIGH · CVSS 8.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-02-21T22:29:00.267 · Last modified 2026-06-17T02:02:56.937

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.

Affected products

cactusvpn — cactusvpn

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References

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