Vulnerability · Published Jan 15, 2021 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-25533

High 7.0

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 0.3% (higher than 19% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)7.0High

Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 80.7% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

An issue was discovered in Malwarebytes before 4.0 on macOS. A malicious application was able to perform a privileged action within the Malwarebytes launch daemon. The privileged service improperly validated XPC connections by relying on the PID instead of the audit token. An attacker can construct a situation where the same PID is used for running two different programs at different times, by leveraging a race condition during crafted use of posix_spawn.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://wojciechregula.blog/post/learn-xpc-exploitation-part-2-say-no-to-the-pid/ x_refsource_MISC