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Samsung Magician for MacOS Privilege Escalation (CVE-2024-31952)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 204783

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Synopsis

Samsung magician running on the remote host is affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability.

Description

Samsung Magician versions < 8.1.0 are vulnerable to a privilege escalation vulnerability due to issues with symbolic linking in the files used during the installation process allowing an attacker to escalate privileges through arbitrary file permission writes.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to Samsung Magician 8.1.0 or later.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?fec727ba

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 204783

File Name: samsung_magician_CVE-2024-31952.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Published: 7/26/2024

Updated: 11/1/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Temporal Score: 4.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-31952

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.7

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:samsung:magician

Required KB Items: installed_sw/SamsungMagician

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/8/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/8/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-31952

IAVB: 2024-B-0101