Miniconda3 macOS installers before 23.11.0-1 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 flaw allows a local low-privileged user to inject arbitrary commands, leading to code execution as the root user.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 7.8 · condaNVD modified 2026-10-27 18:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 1
cpe:2.3:a:conda:miniconda3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 2
- https://m8sec.dev/blog/privilege-escalation-macos-pkg-installers/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.anaconda.com/docs/getting-started/miniconda/release/23.x#miniconda-23-11-0-1 Release Notes