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CVE-2018-7493
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-03-05T20:29:00.333 · Last modified 2026-06-17T02:03:14.377

Summary

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 products

cactusvpn — cactusvpn

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References

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