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TI-2018-05281 Aliases CVE-2018-7281GHSA-2p69-65qq-262h

CactusVPN 5.3.6 for macOS contains a root privilege escalation vulnerability through a…

Priority MEDIUM 41Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · High
Fix status
No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.0 · NVD. Fix status from CNA.

Summary

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.

Why it matters now

EPSS 0.01541 75th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
——all versions—No fix listedCNA
  • — Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:cactusvpn:cactusvpn:5.3.6:*:*:*:*:macos:*:*5.3.6VulnerableCactusvpn
  • cpe:2.3:a:cactusvpn:cactusvpn:5.3.6:*:*:*:*:macos:*:* Versions 5.3.6 Vulnerable ·Cactusvpn

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2018-7281
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-2p69-65qq-262h

References

Advisory 1

  • TI-2018-05402 CactusVPN through 6.0 for macOS suffers from a root privilege escalation vulnerability in… CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8

Sources

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