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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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-20349 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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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-09-16T20:26:46.489Z

Reserved: 2018-03-16T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2018-8739

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Status : Modified

Published: 2018-03-16T18:29:00.293

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:14:14.693

Link: CVE-2018-8739

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