VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2018-8739

CVSS score9.8 CRITICAL
EPSS probability1.54%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-03-16
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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.

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