All known versions of the Netgear Genie Installer for macOS contain a local privilege escalation vulnerability. The installer of the macOS version of Netgear Genie handles certain files in an insecure way. A malicious actor who has local access to the endpoint on which the software is going to be installed may overwrite certain files to obtain privilege escalation to root.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-7629 All known versions of the Netgear Genie Installer for macOS contain a local privilege escalation vulnerability. The installer of the macOS version of Netgear Genie handles certain files in an insecure way. A malicious actor who has local access to the endpoint on which the software is going to be installed may overwrite certain files to obtain privilege escalation to root.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: tenable

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-03T17:30:07.693Z

Reserved: 2020-12-17T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-20172

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Status : Modified

Published: 2021-12-30T22:15:09.707

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:46:03.773

Link: CVE-2021-20172

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