CVE-2024-8272 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in the com.uaudio.bsd.helper service, which is responsible for privileged operations. The service fails to validate client code requirements, entitlements, or security flags during XPC inter-process communication, allowing unauthorized clients to exploit its methods. This flaw has a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, and can lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability (root privileges). There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| Universal Audio | UAConnect | >= 0, <= 2.7.0CNA affecteddefault unaffected |
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
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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.