Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-7281 - Unspecified vulnerability in Cactusvpn 5.3.6

047910
CVSS 8.8 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
LOW
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
cactusvpn

Summary

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Cactusvpn
1