CVE-2019-7249 describes a critical vulnerability in Keybase for macOS versions prior to 2.12.6. This flaw, a time-to-check-time-to-use (TOCTOU) bug in the move RPC to the Helper, allowed a local, unprivileged user to tamper with another user's Keybase installations. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), the vulnerability has a network attack vector, low attack complexity, and high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2.12.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:keybase:keybase:*:*:*:*:*:macos:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.