CVE-2018-7493

Published: Mar 5, 2018Modified: Jun 17, 2026

9.8

Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 5.9

Source: NVD

Description

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 (1)

Products: Cactusvpn: Cactusvpn

Cactusvpn

1 product

Cactusvpn

Configuration A

1 vulnerable · 1 platform

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Cactusvpn Cactusvpn	version ≤ 6.0

Running on/with	Platform Versions
Apple Macos	All versions

References (2)

https://github.com/VerSprite/research/blob/master/advisories/VS-2018-007.md

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory

https://github.com/VerSprite/research/blob/master/advisories/VS-2018-007.md

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Third Party Advisory

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