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Privileges Memory Corruption (Out-of-bound write)

Moderate
rtrouton published GHSA-rgq4-wxpj-5jv9 Sep 11, 2023

Package

Privileges (macOS)

Affected versions

< 1.5.4

Patched versions

1.5.4

Description

Impact

An attacker with standard privileges on macOS when requesting administrator privileges from the application can submit input which causes a buffer overflow resulting in a crash of the application. This could make the application unavailable and allow reading or modification of data.

Patches

The issue has been fixed in Privileges 1.5.4.

Workarounds

None. Please update to Privileges 1.5.4 or later.

References

https://github.com/SAP/macOS-enterprise-privileges/releases/tag/1.5.4

Acknowledgements

Severity

Moderate
6.3
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

CVE ID

CVE-2023-40307

Weaknesses

No CWEs