Root Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in CactusVPN for macOS

CVE-2018-7493 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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.

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