Privilege Escalation via Screen Sharing in macOS

CVE-2017-7158 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:S/C:C/I:N/A:N

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.13.2 is affected. The issue involves the "Screen Sharing Server" component. It allows attackers to obtain root privileges for reading files by leveraging screen-sharing access.

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