CVE-2018-7281

HIGH

Cactusvpn - Privilege Escalation

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

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.

References (1)

Core 1

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0043
EPSS Percentile 62.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (1)
cactusvpn/cactusvpn 5.3.6
Published Feb 21, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026