Privilege escalation vulnerability in Spotlight in Apple Mac OS - CVE-2022-26704ID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:80152 | Date: (C)2022-05-18 (M)2023-12-07 |
Class: VULNERABILITY | Family: macos |
The host is installed with Apple Mac OS 12 before 12.4, Apple Mac OS X 10.15.7 or Apple Mac OS 11 before 11.6.8 and is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability. A flaw is present in the application, which fails to properly handle issues in symlinks validation. On successful exploitation, an app may be able to gain elevated privileges.
Platform: |
Apple Mac OS X 10.15 |
Apple Mac OS 11 |
Apple Mac OS 12 |