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 constru...

CVE-2020-25533

CVE-2020-25533 describes a local privilege issue in Malwarebytes for macOS prior to 4.0. A malicious application could exercise a privileged action within the Malwarebytes launch daemon because the service incorrectly validated XPC connections by relying on the process ID (PID) instead of the aud...

Nord Security: Vulnerabilities chain leading to privilege escalation

The researcher provided us with a chain of 5 vulnerabilities. By chaining all of them together, the attacker is able to establish a valid XPC connection with the privileged helper. Then, the attacker is able to send a message to open a binary located in the controlled location that has a symlink...