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CVE-2018-9105

27
FAUCET Score

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.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.3.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:nordvpn:nordvpn:3.3.10:*:*:*:*:macos:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.8HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.74%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0274 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 17,805 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

github.com / VerSprite/research/blob/master/advisories/VS-2018-015.md
Third Party Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/140939
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry