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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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Affected products

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  • CactusVPN/CactusVPN2 versions
    cpe:2.3:a:cactusvpn:cactusvpn:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
    • cpe:2.3:a:cactusvpn:cactusvpn:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=6.0
    • (no CPE)range: <=6.0

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