CVE-2021-26738 (GCVE-0-2021-26738)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-10-23 13:24
Modified
2025-02-27 20:40
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-426 - Untrusted Search Path
Summary
Zscaler Client Connector for macOS prior to 3.7 had an unquoted search path vulnerability via the PATH variable. A local adversary may be able to execute code with root privileges.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zscaler | Client Connector |
Version: 0 < 3.7 |
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