nehelper wants croissant?

[katbel]

On May 23, 2023, nehelper tried to establish a connection to croissant.edge.apple on TCP port 443 (https)

What is that?
I 've never seen nehelper. Just after updating to Monterey 12.6.6
Tried a search about the croissant edge apple : guess what I found 😋
Good on the croissant side, bad on my knowledge about what is asking to get access

Any idea?

 

[gilby101]

From the man page:
"nehelper is part of the Network Extension framework. It is responsible for vending the Network Extension configuration to Network Extension clients and applying changes to the Network Extension configuration."

The developer page for Network Extension is https://developer.apple.com/documentation/networkextension

croissant.edge.apple is 17.253.144.13 which is in the Apple address range (17/8).

nehelper seems not to be making network connections on my Mac. Activity most likely depends on what network extensions you have installed.

 

[katbel]

From the man page:
"nehelper is part of the Network Extension framework. It is responsible for vending the Network Extension configuration to Network Extension clients and applying changes to the Network Extension configuration."

The developer page for Network Extension is https://developer.apple.com/documentation/networkextension

croissant.edge.apple is 17.253.144.13 which is in the Apple address range (17/8).

nehelper seems not to be making network connections on my Mac. Activity most likely depends on what network extensions you have installed.

Thanks for your detailed explanation!

I don't have any extra network extension in my libraries -user and system
I was using Apple Configurator at the time but the access was asked by the system