CVE-2021-3187

8.8 highEPSS 0.6%

High (8.8) in beyondtrust privilege management for mac. EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Mac before 5.7. An authenticated, unprivileged user can elevate privileges by running a malicious script (that executes as root from a temporary directory) during install time. (This applies to macOS before 10.15.5, or Security Update 2020-003 on Mojave and High Sierra, Later versions of macOS are not vulnerable.)

Severity

CVSS 3.1

8.8 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 50% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-276
Published: 2023-12-11
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

beyondtrust:privilege_management_for_mac

References

https://www.beyondtrust.com/docs/release-notes/privilege-management/index.htm
https://www.beyondtrust.com/trust-center/security-advisories/bt22-06
https://www.beyondtrust.com/docs/release-notes/privilege-management/index.htm
https://www.beyondtrust.com/trust-center/security-advisories/bt22-06

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