Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Mar 16, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-8739
CVE-2018-8739
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.
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Affected products
1- Range: =4.2.0
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References
1- github.com/VerSprite/research/blob/master/advisories/VS-2018-014.mdnvdThird Party Advisory
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