CVE-2018-7493 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

Published: 2018-03-05

Score: 9.8 Critical

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

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

AND

cpe:2.3:a:cactusvpn:cactusvpn:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

cpe:2.3:o:apple: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-2018-19222	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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

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 0.00339.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

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

History

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Subscriptions

Apple Macos

Cactusvpn Cactusvpn

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-03-05T20:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T06:31:03.521Z

Reserved: 2018-02-26T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2018-7493

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-03-05T20:29:00.333

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:12:14.383

Link: CVE-2018-7493

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-noinfo

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