Vulnerability Report

CVE-2020-14977

Title: F-Secure Safe

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2020-14977.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date Jun 23, 2020
Modified Date Jun 17, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 8.1 CVSS v3.1
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
2.80%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2020-14977: 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.

Impacted Vendors

F
f-secure 1
R
rafael_garcia-suarez 1

Reference Links

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
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
8.1
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
HIGH
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
9.3
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2020-14977 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK
Complexity HIGH
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.