CVE-2023-41036

Summary

CVE-2023-41036 is a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Macvim, a text editor for MacOS. Prior to version 178, Macvim employs an insecure interprocess communication (IPC) mechanism using Apple's distributed objects, which can be accessed by any program on the machine. This vulnerability could lead to a privilege escalation, potentially granting an attacker root access to the system. MacVim users who edit files requiring root privileges are at risk. Version 178 of Macvim includes a fix to address this issue.

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