CVE-2018-18859 describes multiple local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the LiquidVPN client for macOS, specifically versions through 1.37. An attacker can exploit an unprotected XPC service to execute arbitrary OS commands as root or load malicious kernel extensions. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 7.8, indicating a low attack complexity with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, and requires local access. While not actively exploited in the wild or on CISA's KEV catalog, public exploit code (EDB-45782) is available, though it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 1.37CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:liquidvpn:liquidvpn:*:*:*:*:*:macos:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.