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VU#653767: Perimeter81 macOS Application Multiple Vulnerabilities
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Overview
A command injection vulnerability can be used in the Perimeter81 macOS application to run arbitrary commands with administrative privileges.
Description
At the time, the latest Perimeter81 MacOS application (10.0.0.19) suffers from local privilege escalation vulnerability inside its com.perimeter81.osx.HelperTool. This HelperTool allows main application to setup things which require administrative privileges such as VPN connection, changing routing table, etc.
By combining insufficient checks of an XPC connection and creating a dictionary with the key "usingCAPath" a command can be appended …
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