CVE-2021-3187 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2021-3187

An issue was discovered in BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Mac...

Vulnerability Description

An issue was discovered in BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Mac before 5.7. An authenticated, unprivileged user can elevate privileges by running a malicious script (that executes as root from a temporary directory) during install time. (This applies to macOS before 10.15.5, or Security Update 2020-003 on Mojave and High Sierra, Later versions of macOS are not vulnerable.)

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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References

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Affected Vendor

beyondtrust

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Affected Software

privilege management for mac
Vulnerable Versions:
0

Timeline

Official Publish: December 11th, 2023
Last Modified: May 27th, 2025
Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

No vector data available

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.