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CVE-2020-14977
- Severity: high (CVSS 8.1 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2020-06-23 · updated 2026-06-17
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.
Affected products
References
- https://theevilbit.github.io/posts/
- https://www.f-secure.com/en/business/programs/vulnerability-reward-program/hall-of-fame
- https://www.f-secure.com/en/home/products/safe
- https://theevilbit.github.io/posts/
- https://www.f-secure.com/en/business/programs/vulnerability-reward-program/hall-of-fame
- https://www.f-secure.com/en/home/products/safe
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