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CVE-2024-46062

HIGH CVSS: 7.8 Published: 2025-12-17 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

Miniconda3 macOS installers before 23.11.0-1 contain a local privilege escalation vulnerability when installed outside the user's home directory. During installation, world-writable files are created and executed with root privileges. This flaw allows a local low-privileged user to inject arbitrary commands, leading to code execution as the root user.

Affected Platforms

Conda Miniconda3Apple Macos

Weakness Type

CWE-77, CWE-732

References