CVE-2024-55968 - DTEX DEC-M Escalation of Privileges and XPC Connection Manipulation

CVE-2024-55968 - DTEX DEC-M Escalation of Privileges and XPC Connection Manipulation

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CVE ID : CVE-2024-55968
Published : Jan. 28, 2025, 10:15 p.m. | 2 hours, 39 minutes ago
Description : An issue was discovered in DTEX DEC-M (DTEX Forwarder) 6.1.1. The com.dtexsystems.helper service, responsible for handling privileged operations within the macOS DTEX Event Forwarder agent, fails to implement critical client validation during XPC interprocess communication (IPC). Specifically, the service does not verify the code requirements, entitlements, security flags, or version of any client attempting to establish a connection. This lack of proper logic validation allows malicious actors to exploit the service's methods via unauthorized client connections, and escalate privileges to root by abusing the DTConnectionHelperProtocol protocol's submitQuery method over an unauthorized XPC connection.
Severity: 0.0 | NA
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