What is CVE-2024-46062?

CVE-2024-46062 is a high-severity vulnerability in Apple Macos, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2025-12-17.

How severe is CVE-2024-46062?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.

RCE in Apple Macos

CVE-2024-46062

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.

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

EPSS: 0.002 (7.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Apple Macos
Conda Miniconda3
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (Release Notes)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-46062?: CVE-2024-46062 is a high-severity vulnerability in Apple Macos, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2025-12-17.
How severe is CVE-2024-46062?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.