{"document":{"category":"csaf_vex","csaf_version":"2.0","title":"CVE-2026-24066: Slate Digital Connect macOS XPC certificate validation privilege escalation","publisher":{"category":"vendor","name":"HarborGuard Database","namespace":"https://database.harborguard.co"},"tracking":{"id":"CVE-2026-24066","status":"final","version":"1","initial_release_date":"2026-06-10T11:43:53.830Z","current_release_date":"2026-06-10T14:27:50.169Z","revision_history":[{"date":"2026-06-10T11:43:53.830Z","number":"1","summary":"Initial machine-readable export from HarborGuard."}]},"distribution":{"tlp":{"label":"WHITE"},"text":"Public CVE data; freely redistributable."},"notes":[{"category":"description","text":"Slate Digital Connect 1.37.0 for macOS installs a privileged helper tool, com.slatedigital.connect.privileged.helper.tool, which exposes the XPC service com.slatedigital.connect.privileged.helper.tool2. The helper validates connecting XPC clients by checking only the subject.OU value of the client's signing certificate and does not verify that the certificate chains to a trusted code-signing authority. A local attacker can sign a malicious client with a self-signed certificate containing the expected organizational unit value and connect to the privileged XPC service. This allows unauthorized access to privileged helper functionality and may lead to local privilege escalation.","title":"CVE description"}],"references":[{"category":"self","summary":"CVE-2026-24066 on HarborGuard Database","url":"https://database.harborguard.co/cve/CVE-2026-24066"},{"category":"external","summary":"CVE Record","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-24066"},{"category":"external","summary":"r.sec-consult.com","url":"https://r.sec-consult.com/slate"}]},"product_tree":{"branches":[{"category":"vendor","name":"Slate Digital LLC","branches":[{"category":"product_name","name":"Slate Digital Connect","branches":[{"category":"product_version","name":"1.37.0","product":{"name":"Slate Digital LLC Slate Digital Connect 1.37.0","product_id":"CSAFPID-1","product_identification_helper":{"cpe":"cpe:2.3:a:slate_digital_llc:slate_digital_connect:1.37.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"}}}]}]}]},"vulnerabilities":[{"cve":"CVE-2026-24066","title":"Slate Digital Connect macOS XPC certificate validation privilege escalation","notes":[{"category":"description","text":"Slate Digital Connect 1.37.0 for macOS installs a privileged helper tool, com.slatedigital.connect.privileged.helper.tool, which exposes the XPC service com.slatedigital.connect.privileged.helper.tool2. The helper validates connecting XPC clients by checking only the subject.OU value of the client's signing certificate and does not verify that the certificate chains to a trusted code-signing authority. A local attacker can sign a malicious client with a self-signed certificate containing the expected organizational unit value and connect to the privileged XPC service. This allows unauthorized access to privileged helper functionality and may lead to local privilege escalation.","title":"CVE description"}],"product_status":{"known_affected":["CSAFPID-1"]},"scores":[{"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","baseScore":8.4,"baseSeverity":"HIGH"},"products":["CSAFPID-1"]}],"remediations":[{"category":"none_available","details":"No fixed version is published yet. Monitor the upstream advisory.","product_ids":["CSAFPID-1"]}]}]}