CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-46062

7.8 HIGH Published 2025-12-17 Modified 2026-10-27 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2025-12-17
Last modified
2026-10-27
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-732, CWE-77

Description

Miniconda3 macOS installers before 23.11.0-1 contain a local privilege escalation vulnerability when installed outside the user's home directory. During installation, world-writable files are created and executed with root privileges. This flaw allows a local low-privileged user to inject arbitrary commands, leading to code execution as the root user.

Affected configurations

• conda miniconda3 (< 23.11.0-1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource weakness
  • CWE-77 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command weakness

References