DTEX DEC-M 6.1.1 com.DTEXsystems.helper Service submitQuery improper authorization

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A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in DTEX DEC-M 6.1.1. Impacted is the function submitQuery of the component com.DTEXsystems.helper Service. The manipulation leads to improper authorization. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-55968. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in DTEX DEC-M 6.1.1. This issue affects the function submitQuery of the component com.DTEXsystems.helper Service. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper authorization vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-285. The product does not perform or incorrectly performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The advisory is shared at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-55968 since 12/14/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. 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 06/23/2025). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1548.002 for this issue.

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

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2024-52868). Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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• DTEX

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• DEC-M

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• 6.1.1

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Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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