CVE-2020-14977
highpriority · track · 33EPSS 0.031 · 88 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-28
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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affected products (2)
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references (11)
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- http://www.nsfocus.net/vulndb/46997cnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-14977cnnvd
- https://theevilbit.github.io/posts/cnnvd
- https://www.f-secure.com/en/business/programs/vulnerability-reward-program/hall-of-famecnnvd
- https://www.f-secure.com/en/home/products/safecnnvd
- https://theevilbit.github.io/posts/enisa_euvd
- https://www.f-secure.com/en/business/programs/vulnerability-reward-program/hall-of-fameenisa_euvd
- https://www.f-secure.com/en/home/products/safeenisa_euvd
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