CVE-2018-8739

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CVSS 3.0

9.8 critical

EPSS

2%p73

Published

Mar 16, 2018 (Mar 16, 2018)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

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.

Vendors: keepsolid
Products: vpn unlimited
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (1.5%)

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