{"id":64879,"date":"2025-06-11T05:32:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T02:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2024-7457-apple-ws-stash-app-macos-privilege-escalation-vulnerability\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T05:32:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T02:02:13","slug":"cve-2024-7457-apple-ws-stash-app-macos-privilege-escalation-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2024-7457-apple-ws-stash-app-macos-privilege-escalation-vulnerability\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2024-7457 &#8211; Apple ws.stash.app macOS Privilege Escalation Vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CVE ID : <\/strong>CVE-2024-7457<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Published : <\/strong> June 11, 2025, 12:15 a.m. | 47\u00a0minutes ago<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Description : <\/strong>The ws.stash.app.mac.daemon.helper tool contains a vulnerability caused by an incorrect use of macOS\u2019s authorization model. Instead of validating the client&#8217;s authorization reference, the helper invokes AuthorizationCopyRights() using its own privileged context (root), effectively authorizing itself rather than the client. As a result, it grants the system.preferences.admin right internally, regardless of the requesting client&#8217;s privileges. This flawed logic allows unprivileged clients to invoke privileged operations via XPC, including unauthorized changes to system-wide network preferences such as SOCKS, HTTP, and HTTPS proxy settings. The absence of proper code-signing checks further enables arbitrary processes to exploit this flaw, leading to man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks through traffic redirection.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Severity:<\/strong> 7.8 | HIGH<br \/>\n<br \/>\nVisit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2024-7457 Published : June 11, 2025, 12:15 a.m. | 47\u00a0minutes ago Description : The ws.stash.app.mac.daemon.helper tool contains a vulnerability caused by an incorrect use of macOS\u2019s authorization model. Instead of validating the client&#8217;s authorization reference, the helper invokes AuthorizationCopyRights() using its own privileged context (root), effectively authorizing itself rather than the client. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}