CVE-2024-46062
Miniconda3 macOS installers before 23.11.0-1 contain a local privilege escalation vulnerability when installed outside the user's home directory.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.20%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Miniconda3 macOS installers before 23.11.0-1 contain a local privilege escalation vulnerability when installed outside the user's home directory. During installation, world-writable files are created and executed with root privileges. This flaw allows a local low-privileged user to inject arbitrary commands, leading to code execution as the root user.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.20% probability · 10th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-77, CWE-732
- Affected
- conda/miniconda3
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- https://m8sec.dev/blog/privilege-escalation-macos-pkg-installers/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.anaconda.com/docs/getting-started/miniconda/release/23.x#miniconda-23-11-0-1Release Notes
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.