CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-65842

5.1 MEDIUM Published 2025-12-03 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2025-12-03
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
5.1 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-266

Description

The Aquarius HelperTool (1.0.003) privileged XPC service on macOS contains multiple flaws that allow local privilege escalation. The service accepts XPC connections from any local process without validating the client's identity, and its authorization logic incorrectly calls AuthorizationCopyRights with a NULL reference, causing all authorization checks to succeed. The executeCommand:authorization:withReply: method then interpolates attacker-controlled input into NSTask and executes it with root privileges. A local attacker can exploit these weaknesses to run arbitrary commands as root, create persistent backdoors, or obtain a fully interactive root shell.

Affected configurations

• acustica-audio aquarius helpertool 1.0.003

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-266 Incorrect Privilege Assignment weakness

References