CVE-2018-18860

published 2018-11-30

CVE-2018-18860: A local privilege escalation vulnerability has been identified in the SwitchVPN client 2.1012.03 for macOS. Due to over-permissive configuration settings and a…

Priority P3 45 high 7.8 CVSS 3.0

AV L AC L PR L UI N S U C H I H A H

EXPLOIT

A local privilege escalation vulnerability has been identified in the SwitchVPN client 2.1012.03 for macOS. Due to over-permissive configuration settings and a SUID binary, an attacker is able to execute arbitrary binaries as root.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
switchvpn	switchvpn	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 7.8 HIGH CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 7.2 HIGH AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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