CactusVPN up to 5.3.6 on MacOS system Command Line Argument access control

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in CactusVPN up to 5.3.6 on MacOS and classified as critical. Affected is the function system. Such manipulation as part of Command Line Argument leads to access control. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2018-7281. An attack has to be approached locally. There is no exploit available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in CactusVPN up to 5.3.6 on MacOS and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is the function system. The manipulation as part of a Command Line Argument leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-264. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The bug was discovered 02/21/2018. The weakness was shared 02/21/2018 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2018-7281 since 02/21/2018. The attack needs to be approached locally. A simple authentication is needed for exploitation. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-264
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: Yes

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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: github.com
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2018-7281 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2018-7281
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-113684

Entryinfo

Created: 02/22/2018 09:52
Updated: 01/07/2020 17:23
Changes: 02/22/2018 09:52 (56), 01/07/2020 17:23 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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