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CVE-2026-2638 (GCVE-0-2026-2638)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-09 11:21 – Updated: 2026-06-09 13:50
VLAI
Title
X-VPN macOS website versions - Local Privilege Escalation
Summary
A vulnerability in the quarantine and restore workflow of the X-VPN macOS website versions 77.0 through 77.5 allow a local attacker to leverage a race condition and symlink manipulation to achieve privileged file corruption.
Severity
7.3 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-06-09 12:59 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-367 - Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
X-VPN X-VPN macOS website Affected: 77.0 , ≤ 77.5 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:x-vpn:x-vpn_macos_website:*:*:macos:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
Oscar Uribe
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