Vulnerability · CVE-2024-7457
The ws.stash.app.mac.daemon.helper tool contains a vulnerability caused by an incorrect use of macOS’s authorization model.
Published Jun 10, 2025 · catalog updated Jun 11, 2025 · Stash Stash
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No confirmed exploitation is on record for CVE-2024-7457. EPSS is 0.16%. Act only if a listed version of Stash Stash is installed.
Gaps on this record
- No version range is stored. A customer cannot check an installed version against this record.
- No vendor fix or required action is stored. Compare the linked advisory before you change production.
- Severity
- High7.8
- Known exploitation
- Not in CISA/VulnCheck KEV
- EPSS
- 0.16%
- Remediation
- Vendor / distro source
- Affected products
- vendor Stash Stash 0 ≤build 303
The ws.stash.app.mac.daemon.helper tool contains a vulnerability caused by an incorrect use of macOS’s authorization model. Instead of validating the client's authorization reference, the helper invokes AuthorizationCopyRights() using its own privileged context (root), effectively authorizing itself rather than the client. As a result, it grants the system.preferences.admin right internally, regardless of the requesting client's privileges. This flawed logic allows unprivileged clients to invoke privileged operations via XPC, including unauthorized changes to system-wide network preferences su
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- vendor Stash Stash 0 ≤build 3030 ≤build 303
How to fix CVE-2024-7457
Recommended remediation
A vendor or distribution source is linked. Check that advisory for patch availability; this catalog does not invent fix status.
Official advisories
What to do
Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.
Should you patch?
No confirmed exploitation is on record for CVE-2024-7457. EPSS is 0.16%. Act only if a listed version of Stash Stash is installed.
Which versions are affected?
Compare what you have installed with Stash Stash 0 ≤build 303 0 ≤build 303. Compare the installed version with the linked vendor advisory before you change production.
What should an analyst verify?
No weakness class is stored. EPSS 0.16%. There is no CISA KEV listing. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.
Code
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Timeline
Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.
Jun 10, 2025 · EUVD
Detected
The ws.stash.app.mac.daemon.helper tool contains a vulnerability caused by an incorrect use of macOS’s authorization model. Instead of validating the client's authorization reference, the helper invokes AuthorizationCopyRights() using its own privileged context (root), effectively authorizing itself rather than the client. As a result, it grants the system.preferences.admin right internally, regar
Jun 11, 2025 · EUVD
Updated
The ws.stash.app.mac.daemon.helper tool contains a vulnerability caused by an incorrect use of macOS’s authorization model. Instead of validating the client's authorization reference, the helper invokes AuthorizationCopyRights() using its own privileged context (root), effectively authorizing itself rather than the client. As a result, it grants the system.preferences.admin right internally, regar
Sources
- CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2024-7457
Official CVE identifier
cve.org - FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2024-7457
30-day exploitation probability 0.2%
first.org - EUVDVulnerability recordEUVD-2024-54674
The ws.stash.app.mac.daemon.helper tool contains a vulnerability caused by an incorrect use of macOS’s authorization model. Instead of validating the client's authorization reference, the helper invokes AuthorizationCopyRights() using its own privileged context (root), effectivel
euvd.enisa.europa.eu
References
Freshness
Last verified in this catalog Oct 18, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.