Vulnerability · Published Jun 23, 2020 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2020-14977
High 8.1
In plain English
A high-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 3.1% (higher than 88% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)8.1High
Exploit odds (30 days)3.1%top 12.1% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official 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 products (as reported)
References
- https://www.f-secure.com/en/home/products/safe x_refsource_MISC
- https://www.f-secure.com/en/business/programs/vulnerability-reward-program/hall-of-fame x_refsource_MISC
- https://theevilbit.github.io/posts/ x_refsource_MISC