CVE-2018-8739

CRITICAL

VPN Unlimited 4.2.0 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (1)

Core 1

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0044
EPSS Percentile 63.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (1)
keepsolid/vpn_unlimited < 4.2.0
Published Mar 16, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026