VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2018-7281

CVSS score9 HIGH
EPSS probability1.54%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-02-21
Last modified2026-06-17

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.