PT-2020-14103 · F Secure · F-Secure Safe

Published 2020-06-13 · Updated 2021-07-21 · CVE-2020-14978

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

9.3

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions F-Secure SAFE version 17.7

Description An issue was discovered due to incorrect client version verification, allowing an attacker to connect to a privileged XPC service and execute privileged commands on the system. The attacker needs to execute code on an already compromised machine.

Recommendations For F-Secure SAFE version 17.7, update to a newer version that addresses the incorrect client version verification issue to prevent exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2020-14978

Affected Products

F-Secure Safe

References · 7

• 🔥 https://theevilbit.github.io/posts · Exploit
• https://f-secure.com/en/business/programs/vulnerability-reward-program/hall-of-fame · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-14978 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-14978 · Vendor Advisory
• https://f-secure.com/en/home/products/safe · Vendor Advisory
• https://t.me/cvenotify/4605 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cybersecuritytechnologies/1258 · Telegram Post