CactusVPN through 6.0 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.
Vendor
cactusvpn vulnerabilities
2 published CVES affecting cactusvpn, from public sources (CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, OSV).
- Total
- 2
- Critical
- 1
- High
- 1
- Medium
- 0
- Low
- 0
- Unscored
- 0
- CISA KEV
- 0
Products
Latest cactusvpn CVEs
Newest publication first
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CriticalCVSS 9.8 EPSS 1.8%
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HighCVSS 8.8 EPSS 1.5%
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.
Sources: CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, OSV and public exploit-reference metadata. Product matching comes from the published CVE records. A proof-of-concept means public code exists; it is not evidence of exploitation.