CVE-2018-8739 | BDVDB-2026-98024 Detail

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.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

https://github.com/VerSprite/research/blob/master/advisories/VS-2018-014.md

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12018-03-16Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-09-16Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.