Nimble Commander up to 1.6.0 Build 4087 on macOS info.filesmanager.Files.PrivilegedIOHelperV2 authorization

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A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in Nimble Commander up to 1.6.0 Build 4087 on macOS. The impacted element is the function info.filesmanager.Files.PrivilegedIOHelperV2. The manipulation leads to authorization. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-7062. Local access is required to approach this attack. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Nimble Commander up to 1.6.0 Build 4087 on macOS. This issue affects the function info.filesmanager.Files.PrivilegedIOHelperV2. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a authorization vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-863. The product performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action, but it does not correctly perform the check. This allows attackers to bypass intended access restrictions. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Nimble Commander suffers from a privilege escalation vulnerability due to the server (info.filesmanager.Files.PrivilegedIOHelperV2) performing improper/insufficient validation of a client’s authorization before executing an operation. Consequently, it is possible to execute system-level commands as the root user, such as changing permissions and ownership, obtaining a handle (file descriptor) of an arbitrary file, and terminating processes, among other operations.

The weakness was disclosed by Carlos Garrido. The advisory is shared at pentraze.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-7062 since 07/24/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/27/2024).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Nimble

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• Commander

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• 1.6.0 Build 4087

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