CVE-2018-9105 is a root privilege escalation vulnerability affecting NordVPN 3.3.10 for macOS. It arises from an unprotected XPC service in the application's privileged helper tool, allowing arbitrary applications to send crafted messages. This high-severity vulnerability (CVSS 8.8) enables an attacker to specify a malicious OpenVPN executable, leading to code execution with root privileges. There is currently no public exploit code available, and the vulnerability has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.3.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:nordvpn:nordvpn:3.3.10:*:*:*:*:macos:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.