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CVE-2021-3187

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
11/12/2023
Last modified:
27/05/2025

Description

An issue was discovered in BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Mac before 5.7. An authenticated, unprivileged user can elevate privileges by running a malicious script (that executes as root from a temporary directory) during install time. (This applies to macOS before 10.15.5, or Security Update 2020-003 on Mojave and High Sierra, Later versions of macOS are not vulnerable.)

Impact

Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 8.80 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x
8.80
Severity 3.x
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:beyondtrust:privilege_management_for_mac:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 5.7 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 10.15.5 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 10.13.0 (including) 10.13.6 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 10.14.0 (including) 10.14.6 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.13.6:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.13.6:security_update_2018-002:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.13.6:security_update_2018-003:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.13.6:security_update_2019-001:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.13.6:security_update_2019-002:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.13.6:security_update_2019-003:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.13.6:security_update_2019-004:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.13.6:security_update_2019-005:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.13.6:security_update_2019-006:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.13.6:security_update_2019-007:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.13.6:security_update_2020-001:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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