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FKIE_CVE-2021-36666

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2022-07-12 14:15 - Updated: 2026-07-09 01:16

Severity

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

Summary

An issue was discovered in Druva 6.9.0 for MacOS, allows attackers to gain escalated local privileges via the inSyncDecommission.

References

URL	Tags
cve@mitre.org	https://docs.druva.com/Knowledge_Base/Security_Update/Security_Advisory_for_inSync_Client_7.0.1_and_before	Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://imhotepisinvisible.com/druva-lpe/	Exploit, Patch, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://docs.druva.com/Knowledge_Base/Security_Update/Security_Advisory_for_inSync_Client_7.0.1_and_before	Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://imhotepisinvisible.com/druva-lpe/	Exploit, Patch, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	druva	insync_client	*

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CVE-2021-36666 (GCVE-0-2021-36666)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-07-11 15:06 – Updated: 2026-07-09 00:14

Summary

An issue was discovered in Druva 6.9.0 for MacOS, allows attackers to gain escalated local privileges via the inSyncDecommission.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://docs.druva.com/Knowledge_Base/Security_Up…
https://imhotepisinvisible.com/druva-lpe/

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