CVE-2024-55968

HIGH

DTX DEC-M <6.1.1 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An issue was discovered in DTEX DEC-M (DTEX Forwarder) 6.1.1. The com.dtexsystems.helper service, responsible for handling privileged operations within the macOS DTEX Event Forwarder agent, fails to implement critical client validation during XPC interprocess communication (IPC). Specifically, the service does not verify the code requirements, entitlements, security flags, or version of any client attempting to establish a connection. This lack of proper logic validation allows malicious actors to exploit the service's methods via unauthorized client connections, and escalate privileges to root by abusing the DTConnectionHelperProtocol protocol's submitQuery method over an unauthorized XPC connection.

Exploits (2)

nomisec WRITEUP 2 stars
by Wi1DN00B · poc
https://github.com/Wi1DN00B/CVE-2024-55968
nomisec WRITEUP 2 stars
by null-event · poc
https://github.com/null-event/CVE-2024-55968

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.1048
EPSS Percentile 93.3%
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 poc
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-267
Status published
Published Jan 28, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026