# CVE-2024-7457: macOS Stash network-management utility: Unauthorized Manipulation of System Network Preferences

> Unprivileged users can bypass authorization checks to modify system network proxy settings, enabling man-in-the-middle attacks.

- **Severity:** High 7.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 10 Jun 2025
- **Updated:** 11 Jun 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-xgc5-8vg7-68x3

## What is CVE-2024-7457?

CVE-2024-7457 is a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Stash, published on 10 Jun 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The ws.stash.app.mac.daemon.helper tool contains a vulnerability caused by an incorrect use of macOS’s authorization model. Instead of validating the client's authorization reference, the helper invokes AuthorizationCopyRights() using its own privileged context (root), effectively authorizing itself rather than the client. As a result, it grants the system.preferences.admin right internally, regardless of the requesting client's privileges. This flawed logic allows unprivileged clients to invoke privileged operations via XPC, including unauthorized changes to system-wide network preferences such as SOCKS, HTTP, and HTTPS proxy settings. The absence of proper code-signing checks further enables arbitrary processes to exploit this flaw, leading to man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks through traffic redirection.

Weakness: CWE-863 (Incorrect Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-7457?


## How do I fix CVE-2024-7457?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-7457 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-7457 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-7457 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-7457 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-7457 is a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Stash, published on 10 Jun 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-7457 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Stash. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-7457/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-7457/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-7457
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-7457
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-7457

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-7457/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.