Homebrew · Report #593926
Homebrew privilege escalation vulnerability
Validstatus
highseverity
10upvotes
27 Jun 2019disclosed
Summary
Additional symlinks/directories that were not chownd by brew services needed to be added to avoid the replacement of the opt prefix link.
Homebrew has a privilege escalation vulnerability which can cause an attacker easily gain root permission.
How it was found
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