CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-14977
8.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-06-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Description
An issue was discovered in F-Secure SAFE 17.7 on macOS. The XPC services use the PID to identify the connecting client, which allows an attacker to perform a PID reuse attack and connect to a privileged XPC service, and execute privileged commands on the system. NOTE: the attacker needs to execute code on an already compromised machine.
Affected configurations
• f-secure safe 17.7
References
- https://theevilbit.github.io/posts/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.f-secure.com/en/business/programs/vulnerability-reward-program/hall-of-fame Vendor Advisory
- https://www.f-secure.com/en/home/products/safe Vendor Advisory
- https://theevilbit.github.io/posts/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.f-secure.com/en/business/programs/vulnerability-reward-program/hall-of-fame Vendor Advisory
- https://www.f-secure.com/en/home/products/safe Vendor Advisory