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Advisory Published
Updated

CVE-2021-3187

First published: Mon Dec 11 2023(Updated: )

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.)

Credit: cve@mitre.org

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
All of
BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Mac<5.7
Any of
Apple Mac OS X<10.15.5
Apple Mac OS X>=10.13.0<10.13.6
Apple Mac OS X>=10.14.0<10.14.6
Apple Mac OS X=10.13.6
Apple Mac OS X=10.13.6-security_update_2018-002
Apple Mac OS X=10.13.6-security_update_2018-003
Apple Mac OS X=10.13.6-security_update_2019-001
Apple Mac OS X=10.13.6-security_update_2019-002
Apple Mac OS X=10.13.6-security_update_2019-003
Apple Mac OS X=10.13.6-security_update_2019-004
Apple Mac OS X=10.13.6-security_update_2019-005
Apple Mac OS X=10.13.6-security_update_2019-006
Apple Mac OS X=10.13.6-security_update_2019-007
Apple Mac OS X=10.13.6-security_update_2020-001
Apple Mac OS X=10.13.6-security_update_2020-002
Apple Mac OS X=10.14.6
Apple Mac OS X=10.14.6-security_update_2019-001
Apple Mac OS X=10.14.6-security_update_2019-002
Apple Mac OS X=10.14.6-security_update_2019-004
Apple Mac OS X=10.14.6-security_update_2019-005
Apple Mac OS X=10.14.6-security_update_2019-006
Apple Mac OS X=10.14.6-security_update_2019-007
Apple Mac OS X=10.14.6-security_update_2020-001
Apple Mac OS X=10.14.6-security_update_2020-002

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