A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the InstallationHelper service included with Plugin Alliance Installation Manager v1.4.0 for macOS. The service accepts unauthenticated XPC connections and executes input via system(), which may allow a local user to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges.
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 6.2 · plugin-allianceNVD modified 2026-10-26 22:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 1
cpe:2.3:a:plugin-alliance:installation_manager:1.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 1
- https://almightysec.com/plugin-alliance-helpertool-xpc-service-local-privilege-escalation/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory