CVE-2017-8665 (GCVE-0-2017-8665)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-08-15 18:00
Modified
2024-09-17 02:26
Severity ?
CWE
  • Elevation of Privilege
Summary
The Xamarin.iOS update component on systems running macOS allows an attacker to run arbitrary code as root, aka "Xamarin.iOS Elevation Of Privilege Vulnerability."
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Microsoft Corporation Xamarin.iOS Version: Xamarin.iOS
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