CVE-2018-18860 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

A local privilege escalation vulnerability has been identified in the SwitchVPN client 2.1012.03 for macOS. Due to over-permissive configuration settings and a SUID binary, an attacker is able to execute arbitrary binaries as root.

Published: 2018-11-30

Score: 7.8 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:switchvpn:switchvpn:2.1012.03:*:*:*:*:macos:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2018-10571	A local privilege escalation vulnerability has been identified in the SwitchVPN client 2.1012.03 for macOS. Due to over-permissive configuration settings and a SUID binary, an attacker is able to execute arbitrary binaries as root.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Complete

Integrity Impact Complete

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00424.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/150323/SwitchVPN-For-MacOS-2.1012.03-Privilege-Escalation.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Nov/38
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45854/

History

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Subscriptions

Switchvpn Switchvpn

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-11-30T18:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T11:23:08.866Z

Reserved: 2018-10-30T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2018-18860

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-11-30T18:29:00.413

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:56:45.920

Link: CVE-2018-18860

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-noinfo

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