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CVE-2018-7281

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-02-21 · updated 2026-06-17

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.

Affected products

• Cactusvpn: 5.3.6

References

• https://github.com/VerSprite/research/blob/master/advisories/VS-2018-003.md
• https://github.com/VerSprite/research/blob/master/advisories/VS-2018-003.md

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