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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privilege_management_for_mac
Vendor: beyondtrust
Actively Exploited
1
CISA KEV List
PoC / Exploits
1
Code Available
Total RCEs
0
Remote Access
Total CVEs
2
Total Indexed
Avg. EPSS
50.30%
Exploit Prob.
Security Vulnerability Index
Page 1 / 1
8.8
CVSS
Severity: HIGH
Critical Target
7.8
CVSS
CVE-2021-3156
Exploit Found
Sudo before 1.9.5p2 contains an off-by-one error that can result in a heap-based buffer overflow, which allows privilege escalation to root via "sudoedit -s" and a command-line argument that ends with a single backslash character.
Severity: HIGH