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CVE-2018-7715

Estado: ModificadaCrítica (9.8)—

PrivateVPN 2.0.31 for macOS suffers from a root privilege escalation vulnerability with its com.privat.vpn.helper privileged helper tool. This privileged helper tool implements an XPC service that allows arbitrary installed applications to connect and send messages. The XPC service extracts the path string from the corresponding XPC message. This string is supposed to point to PrivateVPN's internal openvpn binary. If a new connection has not already been established, an attacker can send the XPC service a malicious XPC message with the path string pointing at a binary that he or she controls. This results in the execution of arbitrary code as the root user.

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      "value": "PrivateVPN 2.0.31 para macOS sufre de una vulnerabilidad de escalado de privilegios root con su herramienta helper privilegiada com.privat.vpn. La herramienta helper privilegiada implementa un servicio XPC que permite que las aplicaciones instaladas se conecten y envíen mensajes. El servicio XPC extrae la cadena de ruta del mensaje XPC correspondiente. La cadena debería señalar al binario openvpn interno de PrivateVPN. Si no se ha establecido ya una nueva conexión, un atacante puede enviar al servicio XPC un mensaje XPC malicioso con la cadena de ruta señalando a un binario que él o ella controla. Esto resulta en la ejecución de código arbitrario como usuario root."
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