CVE-2020-25533

An issue was discovered in Malwarebytes before 4.0 on macOS. A malicious application was able to perform a privileged action within the Malwarebytes launch daemon. The privileged service improperly validated XPC connections by relying on the PID instead of the audit token. An attacker can construct a situation where the same PID is used for running two different programs at different times, by leveraging a race condition during crafted use of posix_spawn.

CVSS v3 7.0 HIGH
CVSS v2.0 6.9 MEDIUM

7.0^/10

CVSS v3 : HIGH

Vector :

Exploitability : 1.0 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity HIGH

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

6.9^/10

CVSS v2.0 : MEDIUM

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

Exploitability : 3.4 / Impact : 10.0

Access Vector LOCAL

Access Complexity MEDIUM

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact COMPLETE

Integrity Impact COMPLETE

Availability Impact COMPLETE

References

Link	Resource
https://wojciechregula.blog/post/learn-xpc-exploitation-part-2-say-no-to-the-pid/	Exploit Patch Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:malwarebytes:malwarebytes:*:*:*:*:-:macos:*:*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2021-01-15 22:15

Updated : 2024-02-28 18:08

NVD link : CVE-2020-25533

Mitre link : CVE-2020-25533

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2020-25533

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Products Affected

malwarebytes

malwarebytes

CWE

CWE-362

Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

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