CVE-2025-21606

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As a result, unauthorized clients can establish a connection to the Mach service and invoke methods exposed by the HelperTool interface. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to modify the hardware settings of the user\u2019s device and execute arbitrary code with root privileges. This issue has been addressed in version 2.11.21 and all users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability."}, {"lang": "es", "value": "stats es un monitor macOS sistema para la barra de men\u00fa. La aplicaci\u00f3n Stats es vulnerable a una escalada de privilegios locales debido a la implementaci\u00f3n insegura de su servicio XPC. La aplicaci\u00f3n registra un servicio Mach con el nombre `eu.exelban.Stats.SMC.Helper`. El binario asociado, eu.exelban.Stats.SMC.Helper, es una herramienta auxiliar privilegiada dise\u00f1ada para ejecutar acciones que requieren privilegios elevados en nombre del cliente, como configurar los modos del ventilador, ajustar las velocidades del ventilador y ejecutar el comando `powermetrics`. La causa ra\u00edz de esta vulnerabilidad radica en el m\u00e9todo `shouldAcceptNewConnection`, que devuelve incondicionalmente YES (o true), lo que permite que cualquier cliente XPC se conecte al servicio sin ning\u00fan tipo de verificaci\u00f3n. Como resultado, los clientes no autorizados pueden establecer una conexi\u00f3n con el servicio Mach e invocar m\u00e9todos expuestos por la interfaz HelperTool. Un atacante puede explotar esta vulnerabilidad para modificar la configuraci\u00f3n de hardware del dispositivo del usuario y ejecutar c\u00f3digo arbitrario con privilegios de superusario. Este problema se ha solucionado en la versi\u00f3n 2.11.21 y se recomienda a todos los usuarios que actualicen la versi\u00f3n. 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