High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Feb 21, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-7281
CVE-2018-7281
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.
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References
1- github.com/VerSprite/research/blob/master/advisories/VS-2018-003.mdnvdThird Party Advisory
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