CVE-2026-26225 PUBLISHED

Intego Personal Backup Task File Privilege Escalation

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 11.02.2026 Published: 12.02.2026 Updated: 12.02.2026

Intego Personal Backup, a macOS backup utility that allows users to create scheduled backups and bootable system clones, contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability. Backup task definitions are stored in a location writable by non-privileged users while being processed with elevated privileges. By crafting a malicious serialized task file, a local attacker can trigger arbitrary file writes to sensitive system locations, leading to privilege escalation to root.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 8.5

Product Status

Vendor Intego
Product Personal Backup
Versions Default: unknown
  • affected from 0 to 10.9.x (incl.)

Credits

  • Mathieu Farrell of Quarkslab finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following') CWE