TeamViewer Remote Client up to 15.51 on macOS symlink

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A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in TeamViewer Remote Client up to 15.51 on macOS. Affected is an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to symlink. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2024-1933. The attack can only be performed from a local environment. No exploit is available. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in TeamViewer Remote Client up to 15.51 on macOS. Affected by this issue is an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a symlink vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-61. The product, when opening a file or directory, does not sufficiently account for when the file is a symbolic link that resolves to a target outside of the intended control sphere. This could allow an attacker to cause the product to operate on unauthorized files. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Insecure UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following in TeamViewer Remote Client prior Version 15.52 for macOS allows an attacker with unprivileged access, to potentially elevate privileges or conduct a denial-of-service-attack by overwriting the symlink.

The advisory is shared for download at teamviewer.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-1933 since 02/27/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

Upgrading to version 15.52 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• TeamViewer

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• Remote Client

Version

• 15.0
• 15.1
• 15.2
• 15.3
• 15.4
• 15.5
• 15.6
• 15.7
• 15.8
• 15.9
• 15.10
• 15.11
• 15.12
• 15.13
• 15.14
• 15.15
• 15.16
• 15.17
• 15.18
• 15.19
• 15.20
• 15.21
• 15.22
• 15.23
• 15.24
• 15.25
• 15.26
• 15.27
• 15.28
• 15.29
• 15.30
• 15.31
• 15.32
• 15.33
• 15.34
• 15.35
• 15.36
• 15.37
• 15.38
• 15.39
• 15.40
• 15.41
• 15.42
• 15.43
• 15.44
• 15.45
• 15.46
• 15.47
• 15.48
• 15.49
• 15.50
• 15.51

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