CVE-2021-20172

All known versions of the Netgear Genie Installer for macOS contain a local privilege escalation vulnerability

published December 30, 2021

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
20.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00289 · 20.4th percentile
Published
2021-12-30T21:31Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 30 DEC 21:31Z
    All known versions of the Netgear Genie Installer for macOS contain a local privilege escalation vulnerability
    cvelistv5