CVE-2018-8739

CriticalCVSS 9.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 9.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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-2018-014.mdThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/VerSprite/research/blob/master/advisories/VS-2018-014.mdThird Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Mar 16, 2018
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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