CVE-2026-49237

An issue was discovered in Canonical Multipass for macOS before version 1.16.3 due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2025-5199. While the patch in version 1.16.0 updated the ownership of the multipassd daemon binary to root:wheel, five co-located binaries multipass, qemu-img, qemu-system-aarch64,...

EUVD-2026-32900

An issue was discovered in Canonical Multipass for macOS before version 1.16.3 due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2025-5199. While the patch in version 1.16.0 updated the ownership of the multipassd daemon binary to root:wheel, five co-located binaries multipass, qemu-img, qemu-system-aarch64,...

CVE-2026-49237 Local Privilege Escalation in Canonical Multipass

An issue was discovered in Canonical Multipass for macOS before version 1.16.3 due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2025-5199. While the patch in version 1.16.0 updated the ownership of the multipassd daemon binary to root:wheel, five co-located binaries multipass, qemu-img, qemu-system-aarch64,...

CVE-2025-57741

An Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource vulnerability CWE-732 in FortiClientMac 7.4.0 through 7.4.3, 7.2.0 through 7.2.11, 7.0 all versions may allow a local attacker to run arbitrary code or commands via LaunchDaemon hijacking...

EUVD-2025-34244

An Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource vulnerability CWE-732 in FortiClientMac 7.4.0 through 7.4.3, 7.2.0 through 7.2.11, 7.0 all versions may allow a local attacker to run arbitrary code or commands via LaunchDaemon hijacking...

CVE-2025-57741

An Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource vulnerability CWE-732 in FortiClientMac 7.4.0 through 7.4.3, 7.2.0 through 7.2.11, 7.0 all versions may allow a local attacker to run arbitrary code or commands via LaunchDaemon hijacking...

📄 Mac OS X Persistent Payload Installer

This Metasploit module provides a persistent boot payload by creating a launch item, which can be a LaunchAgent or a LaunchDaemon. LaunchAgents run with user level permissions and are triggered upon login by a plist entry in /Library/LaunchAgents. LaunchDaemons run with elevated privileges, and a...

EUVD-2024-52614

Malicious code in bioql PyPI...

Mac OS X Persistent Payload Installer

This module provides a persistent boot payload by creating a launch item, which can be a LaunchAgent or a LaunchDaemon. LaunchAgents run with user level permissions and are triggered upon login by a plist entry in /Library/LaunchAgents. LaunchDaemons run with elevated privilleges, and are launche...

CVE-2025-5199

In Canonical Multipass up to and including version 1.15.1 on macOS, incorrect default permissions allow a local attacker to escalate privileges by modifying files executed with administrative privileges by a Launch Daemon during system startup...

CVE-2025-5199

CVE-2025-5199 affects Canonical Multipass on macOS up to version 1.15.1. The flaw is due to incorrect default permissions, enabling a local attacker to escalate privileges by modifying files executed with administrative privileges by a Launch Daemon during system startup. Impact is high (local ac...

CVE-2024-54516

A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.2, macOS Sonoma 14.7.2. An app may be able to approve a launch daemon without user consent...

CVE-2024-54516

A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions. This issue is fixed in macOS Sonoma 14.7.2, macOS Sequoia 15.2. An app may be able to approve a launch daemon without user consent...

CVE-2024-54516

A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.2, macOS Sonoma 14.7.2. An app may be able to approve a launch daemon without user consent...

CVE-2024-54516

A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions. This issue is fixed in macOS Sonoma 14.7.2, macOS Sequoia 15.2. An app may be able to approve a launch daemon without user consent...

CVE-2024-54516

A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.2, macOS Sonoma 14.7.2. An app may be able to approve a launch daemon without user consent...

CVE-2024-54516

CVE-2024-54516 describes a permissions issue in macOS where an app may be able to approve a launch daemon without user consent. Concrete details in connected sources show the vulnerability affects macOS Sonoma 14.7.2 and macOS Sequoia 15.2, with an issue fixed in those updates. The underlying ris...

CVE-2020-25533

An issue was discovered in Malwarebytes before 4.0 on macOS. A malicious application was able to perform a privileged action within the Malwarebytes launch daemon. The privileged service improperly validated XPC connections by relying on the PID instead of the audit token. An attacker can constru...

New Mac cryptominer uses XMRig

A new Mac cryptominer was discovered this week, after affected users saw their fans whirring out of control and a process named "mshelper" gobbling up CPU time like Cookie Monster. Fortunately, this malware is not very sophisticated and is easy to remove. The malware became public knowledge in a...

CVE-2018-7311

PrivateVPN 2.0.31 for macOS suffers from a root privilege escalation vulnerability. The software installs a privileged helper tool that runs as the root user. This privileged helper tool is installed as a LaunchDaemon and implements an XPC service. The XPC service is responsible for handling new...