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CVE-2021-20172

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-12-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-732

Description

All known versions of the Netgear Genie Installer for macOS contain a local privilege escalation vulnerability. The installer of the macOS version of Netgear Genie handles certain files in an insecure way. A malicious actor who has local access to the endpoint on which the software is going to be installed may overwrite certain files to obtain privilege escalation to root.

Affected products

• Netgear Genie Installer for macOS: all versions

References

• https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2021-56
• https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2021-56

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