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- 2025-01-2822:15CVE publishedNVD
- 2026-10-2319:23First public proof of conceptPoC-in-GitHub
Observed activity
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- Firewall list (EDL, text): https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2024-55968?format=txt
- 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.
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
- NVDCVE recordread 2026-10-23
- CISA-ADPSSVC decisionpoc2025-01-29
- OpenCVESSVC decisionpoc—
- CISA-ADPCVSS 3.18.82025-01-29
- CISA-ADPweakness (CWE)CWE-2672025-01-29
- FIRST EPSSEPSS score1.0 %2026-10-22
- PoC-in-GitHubproof of concept2read 2026-10-23
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
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