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

047910
CVSS 9.0 - CRITICAL
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
SINGLE
Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE
Integrity impact
COMPLETE
Availability impact
COMPLETE
network
low complexity
cactusvpn
critical

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