CVE-2021-20172: NETGEAR Genie Installer

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

All known versions of the Netgear Genie Installer for macOS contain a local privilege escalation vulnerability. The installer of the macOS version of Netgear Genie handles certain files in an insecure way. A malicious actor who has local access to the endpoint on which the software is going to be installed may overwrite certain files to obtain privilege escalation to root.

Affected products

• NETGEAR Genie Installer: affected versions not specified

Published 2021-12-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.