CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-8739

Published: Mar 16, 2018 | Modified: Oct 03, 2019

CVSS 3.x

9.8

CRITICAL

Source:

NVD

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

CVSS 2.x

10 HIGH

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-8739
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/.html

VPN Unlimited 4.2.0 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 Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Vpn_unlimited	Keepsolid	*	4.2.0 (excluding)

References

https://github.com/VerSprite/research/blob/master/advisories/VS-2018-014.md

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