CVE-2017-2675

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-04-06 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Little Snitch version 3.0 through 3.7.3 suffer from a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the installer part. The vulnerability is related to the installation of the configuration file "at.obdev.littlesnitchd.plist" which gets installed to /Library/LaunchDaemons.

Affected products

Little Snitch: 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.0.4, 3.1 (+15)
Objective Development Software GmbH Little Snitch: 3.6.2, 3.6.3, 3.6.4, 3.7, 3.7.1, 3.7.2 (+1)

References

https://twitter.com/patrickwardle/status/849076615170711552
https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/releasenotes.html
https://twitter.com/patrickwardle/status/849076615170711552
https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/releasenotes.html

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