cve-2020-14978
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-06-23 19:01
Modified
2024-08-04 13:00
Severity ?
Summary
An issue was discovered in F-Secure SAFE 17.7 on macOS. Due to incorrect client version verification, an attacker can 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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://theevilbit.github.io/posts/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.f-secure.com/en/business/programs/vulnerability-reward-program/hall-of-fameVendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.f-secure.com/en/home/products/safeVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://theevilbit.github.io/posts/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.f-secure.com/en/business/programs/vulnerability-reward-program/hall-of-fameVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.f-secure.com/en/home/products/safeVendor Advisory
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