CVE-2021-3187

HIGH

BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Mac < 5.7 - Authenticated Privilege Escalation via Install Script Execution

Title source: llm

Description

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.)

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Release Notes

https://www.beyondtrust.com/docs/release-notes/privilege-management/index.htm

Vendor Advisory

https://www.beyondtrust.com/trust-center/security-advisories/bt22-06

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8

EPSS 0.0064

EPSS Percentile 46.0%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-276

Status published

Products (1)

beyondtrust/privilege_management_for_mac < 5.7

Published Dec 11, 2023

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026