Security Advisory

CVE-2021-20172

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2021-12-30 21:31:19

Last updated 2024-08-03 17:30:07

Assigner tenable

State PUBLISHED

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.

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