Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Mar 5, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-7493
CVE-2018-7493
Description
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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1- github.com/VerSprite/research/blob/master/advisories/VS-2018-007.mdnvdThird Party Advisory
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