CVE-2018-18857 Multiple local privilege escalation vulnerabilities have been identified in the LiquidVPN client through 1.37 for macOS.

What is CVE-2018-18857?

CVE-2018-18857 is a high-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 20 Nov 2018.

Official description

Multiple local privilege escalation vulnerabilities have been identified in the LiquidVPN client through 1.37 for macOS. An attacker can communicate with an unprotected XPC service and directly execute arbitrary OS commands as root or load a potentially malicious kernel extension because com.smr.liquidvpn.OVPNHelper uses the system function to execute the "command_line" parameter as a shell command.

Weakness: CWE-78

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-18857?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Liquidvpn Liquidvpn.

How do I fix CVE-2018-18857?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-18857 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2018-18857 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-18857 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2018-18856 Command injection in n/a High 7.8
• CVE-2018-18858 Command injection in n/a High 7.8
• CVE-2018-18859 Command injection in n/a High 7.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-wfr7-65rp-h96c.