CVE-2020-14977

Published Jun 23, 2020 CVSS 3.1 · 8.1 High EPSS 3.2% KEV · Not listed
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.

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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-7107 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.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 4, 2024, 1:00 PM
Reserved
Jun 22, 2020, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Jun 23, 2020, 8:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 2:55 AM