CVE-2017-8665 (GCVE-0-2017-8665)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-08-15 18:00 – Updated: 2024-09-17 02:26
VLAI
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."
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • Elevation of Privilege
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Date Public
2017-08-14 00:00
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