CVE-2024-31952 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

An issue was discovered in Samsung Magician 8.0.0 on macOS. Because symlinks are used during the installation process, an attacker can escalate privileges via arbitrary file permission writes. (The attacker must already have user privileges, and an administrator password must be entered during the program installation stage for privilege escalation.)

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Apple	Macos
Samsung	Magician

Configuration 1 [-]

AND

cpe:2.3:a:samsung:magician:8.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

cpe:2.3:o:apple:macos:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

No data.

References

Link	Providers
https://semiconductor.samsung.com/support/quality-support/product-security-updates/cve-2024-31952/

History

Wed, 04 Jun 2025 16:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Apple Apple macos Samsung Samsung magician
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:samsung:magician:8.0.0:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:apple:macos:-:::::::*
Vendors & Products		Apple Apple macos Samsung Samsung magician

Fri, 06 Sep 2024 20:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-59

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2024-05-09T17:38:00.946Z

Updated: 2025-02-13T15:48:00.745Z

Reserved: 2024-04-08T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2024-31952

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T01:59:50.636Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-05-14T15:26:04.263

Modified: 2025-06-03T16:34:36.413

Link: CVE-2024-31952

Redhat

No data.

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