CVE-2018-18860

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/150323/SwitchVPN-For-MacOS-2.1012.03-Privilege-Escalation.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Nov/38Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45854/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/150323/SwitchVPN-For-MacOS-2.1012.03-Privilege-Escalation.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Nov/38Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45854/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

Timeline

Published: Nov 30, 2018
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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