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Public proof of concept

CVE-2024-55968

A public proof of concept exists; no exploitation attested.

  • Published2025-01-28
  • WeaknessCWE-267

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Description

An issue was discovered in DTEX DEC-M (DTEX Forwarder) 6.1.1. The com.dtexsystems.helper service, responsible for handling privileged operations within the macOS DTEX Event Forwarder agent, fails to implement critical client validation during XPC interprocess communication (IPC). Specifically, the service does not verify the code requirements, entitlements, security flags, or version of any client attempting to establish a connection. This lack of proper logic validation allows malicious actors to exploit the service's methods via unauthorized client connections, and escalate privileges to root by abusing the DTConnectionHelperProtocol protocol's submitQuery method over an unauthorized XPC connection.

Timeline

dates in UTC
  1. 2025-01-2822:15CVE publishedNVD
  2. 2026-10-2319:23First public proof of conceptPoC-in-GitHub

Observed activity

isMalicious corpus · updated 2026-10-23 21:37 UTC
Indicators tagged with this CVE, per day0 indicators over 7 days
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  • CSV export: https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2024-55968?format=csv
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Versions per branch

Neither OSV.dev nor the vendor advisories we read list affected versions for CVE-2024-55968 yet.

Full record on NVD

Fix

No fix published by the sources we read yet. NVD record

Detection

read 2026-10-23 19:24 UTC
Nuclei template
none so far
ProjectDiscovery
Exploit-DB
no entry
Exploit-DB
Proof-of-concept repositories
2 repositories, unverifiedWi1DN00B/CVE-2024-55968null-event/CVE-2024-55968
PoC-in-GitHub

Sources

Technical details

CVSS v3 Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Published
2025-01-28
Last Modified
2026-06-17
NVD status
Deferred

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-55968?

An issue was discovered in DTEX DEC-M (DTEX Forwarder) 6.1.1. The com.dtexsystems.helper service, responsible for handling privileged operations within the macOS DTEX Event Forwarder agent, fails to implement critical client validation during XPC interprocess communication (IPC). Specifically, the service does not verify the code requirements, entitlements, security flags, or version of any client attempting to establish a connection. This lack of proper logic validation allows malicious actors to exploit the service's methods via unauthorized client connections, and escalate privileges to root by abusing the DTConnectionHelperProtocol protocol's submitQuery method over an unauthorized XPC connection.

Is CVE-2024-55968 actively exploited?

A proof-of-concept exploit exists for CVE-2024-55968, but active exploitation has not been confirmed at this time.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2024-55968?

CVE-2024-55968 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.8 (HIGH severity), with vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

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