CVE-2024-46060 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Anaconda3 macOS installers prior to version 2024.06-1 when installed outside the user's home directory. During installation, world-writable files are created and executed with root privileges, allowing a low-privileged local user to inject arbitrary commands and achieve root-level code execution. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8 (HIGH), indicating a high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity. Currently, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2024.06-1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:anaconda:anaconda3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
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 records are not available for this CVE.