Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Mac
CVE-2021-3187

8.8HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor

BeyondTrust

Status
Privilege Management for Mac
Vendor
CVE Published:
11 December 2023

What is CVE-2021-3187?

A vulnerability has been identified in BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Mac that allows an authenticated, unprivileged user to gain elevated privileges. By executing a malicious script that runs as root from a temporary directory during installation, attackers can exploit this flaw on macOS versions prior to 10.15.5, or those that have not received Security Update 2020-003 on Mojave and High Sierra. This issue does not affect later versions of macOS.

References

https://www.beyondtrust.com/docs/release-notes/privilege-...
https://www.beyondtrust.com/trust-center/security-advisor...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
8.8
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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