cve-2021-3187
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-12-11 00:00
Modified
2024-08-03 16:45
Severity ?
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.)
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