Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-30827 - Improper Preservation of Permissions vulnerability in Apple mac OS X and Macos

CVSS 7.8 - HIGH

Attack vector

LOCAL

Attack complexity

LOW

Privileges required

LOW

Confidentiality impact

HIGH

Integrity impact

HIGH

Availability impact

HIGH

local

low complexity

apple

CWE-281

NVD

Published: 2021-10-19

Updated: 2021-10-22

Summary

A permissions issue existed. This issue was addressed with improved permission validation. This issue is fixed in Security Update 2021-005 Catalina, macOS Big Sur 11.6. A local attacker may be able to elevate their privileges.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part	Description	Count
OS	Apple Apple MAC OS X 10.15.7 Apple MAC OS X 10.15 Apple MAC OS X 10.15.1 Apple MAC OS X 10.15.2 Apple MAC OS X 10.15.3 Apple MAC OS X 10.15.4 Apple MAC OS X 10.15.5 Apple Macos 11.0 Apple Macos 11.0.1 Apple Macos 11.1 Apple Macos 11.1.0 Apple Macos 11.2 Apple Macos 11.2.1 Apple Macos 11.3 Apple Macos 11.3.1 Apple Macos 11.4 Apple Macos 11.5	25

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

CWE-281 - Improper Preservation of Permissions

Summary

Vulnerable Configurations

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

References