CVE-2021-41388

7.8 highEPSS 0.2%

High (7.8) in netskope netskope. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Netskope client prior to 89.x on macOS is impacted by a local privilege escalation vulnerability. The XPC implementation of nsAuxiliarySvc process does not perform validation on new connections before accepting the connection. Thus any low privileged user can connect and call external methods defined in XPC service as root, elevating their privilege to the highest level.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high

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

EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 15% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-269
Published: 2022-01-04
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

netskope:netskope

References

https://www.netskope.com/company/security-compliance-and-assurance/netskope-security-advisory-nskpsa-2021-002
https://www.netskope.com/company/security-compliance-and-assurance/netskope-security-advisory-nskpsa-2021-002

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