Description
A serious vulnerability in the Xamarin.iOS can be exploited locally to gain privileges.
Technical details
To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would have to log on to an affected system and create a folder at a particular location. which could be used by another process running with elevated privileges.
Only systems running macOS are affected by this vulnerability.
Original advisories
Exploitation
Public exploits exist for this vulnerability.
Related products
CVE list
- CVE-2017-8665 high
KB list
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