VAR-202112-2045

Vulnerability from variot - Updated: 2024-08-14 15:16

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. (DoS) It may be in a state. Netgear genie is a program from Netgear that presents itself as a dashboard

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