MacPaw XADMaster up to 1.10.7 ZIP Archive permissions

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in MacPaw XADMaster up to 1.10.7. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component ZIP Archive Handler. Such manipulation leads to permissions. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-22405. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability was found in MacPaw XADMaster up to 1.10.7 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown function of the component ZIP Archive Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a permissions vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-281. The product does not preserve permissions or incorrectly preserves permissions when copying, restoring, or sharing objects, which can cause them to have less restrictive permissions than intended. Impacted is integrity. CVE summarizes:

XADMaster is an objective-C library for archive and file unarchiving and extraction. When extracting a specially crafted zip archive XADMaster may not apply quarantine attribute correctly. Such behaviour may circumvent Gatekeeper checks on the system. Only macOS installations are affected. This issue was fixed in XADMaster 1.10.8. It is recommended to upgrade to the latest version. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-22405 since 01/10/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1222.

Upgrading to version 1.10.8 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch b75c05bc3bca9e183ecd3c512e270ce93006da3c is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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Vendor

• MacPaw

Name

• XADMaster

Version

• 1.10.0
• 1.10.1
• 1.10.2
• 1.10.3
• 1.10.4
• 1.10.5
• 1.10.6
• 1.10.7

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• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/MacPaw/XADMaster/

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