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CVE-2021-41388

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-41388 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Netskope client versions prior to 89.x on macOS. The vulnerability stems from the nsAuxiliarySvc process's XPC implementation failing to validate new connections, allowing any low-privileged user to connect and execute external methods as root. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (HIGH), this flaw permits an attacker to achieve full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability on an affected system with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. Despite its high severity, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 89CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:netskope:netskope:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.23%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
13.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0023 is in the 44th percentile among its peer group of 16,994 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

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