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VMware Fusion 11.5.12 and prior are vulnerable to an elevation of privilege vulnerability. For more details please review the advisory and proof of concept on my GitHub page CVE-2020-3950.sh. VMware released the patch last week and a public advisory VMSA-2020-0005 today however it has been determined that the patch does not properly fix the vulnerability. I reached out to the VMware security team and received a response at 10:31 UTC 2020-03-18 - “We are aware of the situation and working on the next steps”. ...

The barracudavpn component of the Barracuda VPN Client prior to version 5.0.2.7 for Linux, macOS, and OpenBSD runs as a privileged process and can allow an unprivileged local attacker to load a malicious library, resulting in arbitrary code executing as root. This post will walk through the process on how I found and exploited the vulnerability on Linux. The full PoC will also work on macOS. When researching for potential vulnerabilities with privileged binaries a test system should be used to avoid causing damage or negative impacts.