CVE-2024-46060

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2025-12-17 · updated 2026-09-26
Weakness: CWE-77

Description

Anaconda3 macOS installers before 2024.06-1 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 allows a local low-privileged user to inject arbitrary commands, leading to code execution as the root user.

Affected products

Anaconda3: before 2024.06-1 — fixed in 2024.06-1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Anaconda3 2024.06-1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://m8sec.dev/blog/privilege-escalation-macos-pkg-installers/
https://www.anaconda.com/docs/getting-started/anaconda/release/2024.x#anaconda-2024-06-1

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