Riskcovery

CVE-2021-20172

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Dec 30, 2021
Updated
Aug 3, 2024
Reserved
Dec 17, 2020

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Description

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Netgear Genie Installer for macOSn/a
  • All known versionsAffected

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