THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2020-14978
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2020-14978

Safe vulnerability

CVSS
8.1
EPSS
3.1%
EPSS pct
86th
Exploited
No known
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.
Affected vendor
F Secure
Affected product
Safe
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Published
2020-06-23

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, high attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.1% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 86% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2020-14978

  • Confirm whether F Secure Safe is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2020-14978.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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