cve/2018/CVE-2018-8739.md

### [CVE-2018-8739](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-8739)
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### Description

VPN Unlimited 4.2.0 for macOS suffers from a root privilege escalation vulnerability in its privileged helper tool. The privileged helper tool implements an XPC interface, which allows arbitrary applications to execute system commands as root.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://github.com/VerSprite/research/blob/master/advisories/VS-2018-014.md

#### Github
- https://github.com/Project-WARMIND/Exploit-Modules