CVE-2018-7281

HighCVSS 8.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

CactusVPN 5.3.6 for macOS contains a root privilege escalation vulnerability through a setuid root binary called runme. The binary takes a single command line argument and passes this argument to a system() call, thus allowing low privileged users to execute commands as root.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 8.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/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

https://github.com/VerSprite/research/blob/master/advisories/VS-2018-003.mdThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/VerSprite/research/blob/master/advisories/VS-2018-003.mdThird Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Feb 21, 2018
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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