github - ghsa-wwc4-3prx-5752

ghsa-wwc4-3prx-5752

Vulnerability from github

Published

2023-12-12 00:30

Modified

2023-12-14 18:30

Severity ?

8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

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.)

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2021-3187"
  ],
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    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-276"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2023-12-11T23:15:07Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
  },
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  "id": "GHSA-wwc4-3prx-5752",
  "modified": "2023-12-14T18:30:19Z",
  "published": "2023-12-12T00:30:18Z",
  "references": [
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      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3187"
    },
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      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.beyondtrust.com/docs/release-notes/privilege-management/index.htm"
    },
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      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.beyondtrust.com/trust-center/security-advisories/bt22-06"
    }
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  "severity": [
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}

CVE-2021-3187 (GCVE-0-2021-3187)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2023-12-11 00:00

Modified

2025-05-27 14:50

Severity ?

8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE

n/a

Summary

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.)

References

URL

Tags

	https://www.beyondtrust.com/docs/release-notes/privilege-management/index.htm
	https://www.beyondtrust.com/trust-center/security-advisories/bt22-06

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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