Kernel code execution via graphics-driver race condition
Published Aug 24, 2021 · Updated Aug 3, 2024
Race condition in Apple macOS Graphics Drivers allows local users to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges through a malicious app. The graphics driver fails to synchronize shared state across competing operations, allowing a timing window to reach an unsafe kernel state. Execution of a malicious local application and successful timing of the race are required; exploitation runs attacker-controlled code in the kernel.
Summary
What happened
Race condition in Apple macOS Graphics Drivers allows local users to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges through a malicious app. The graphics driver fails to synchronize shared state across competing operations, allowing a timing window to reach an unsafe kernel state. Execution of a malicious local application and successful timing of the race are required; exploitation runs attacker-controlled code in the kernel.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2021-30933
- Published
- Aug 24, 2021
- Updated
- Aug 3, 2024
- Vendor
- Apple
- Product
- macOS
- Classifications
- CWE-362, T1068
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Aug 24, 2021CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 3, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=unspecified <11.6
- Affected versionversion=unspecified <12.0
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