Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple local vulnerabilities in Pixar Renderman
Summary: Cisco Talos discovered three local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the macOS install helper tool of Pixar Renderman, a rendering application used in animation and film production. The helper tool is installed and launched as root and continues to listen after installation, and the flaws in its Dispatch function let a local attacker escalate to root; TALOS-2018-0728 and TALOS-2018-0729 affect version 22.2.0 and TALOS-2019-0773 affects version 22.3.0.
What's compelling: A root-level helper that keeps listening after installation gives any local user a path to full system privileges, and Talos confirmed the flaws across two Renderman versions, 22.2.0 and 22.3.0.
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- Topics
- Vulnerabilities & Patching
- Mentions
- CVE-2018-4054CVE-2018-4055CVE-2019-5015
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