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.
References
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

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

History

26 Jan 2021, 21:47

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPE cpe:2.3:a:malwarebytes:malwarebytes:*:*:*:*:-:mac_os:*:* cpe:2.3:a:malwarebytes:malwarebytes:*:*:*:*:-:macos:*:*

23 Jan 2021, 01:35

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CPE cpe:2.3:a:malwarebytes:malwarebytes:*:*:*:*:-:mac_os:*:*
CWE CWE-362
References (MISC) https://wojciechregula.blog/post/learn-xpc-exploitation-part-2-say-no-to-the-pid/ - (MISC) https://wojciechregula.blog/post/learn-xpc-exploitation-part-2-say-no-to-the-pid/ - Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
CVSS v2 : unknown
v3 : unknown
v2 : 6.9
v3 : 7.0

15 Jan 2021, 22:15

Type Values Removed Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2021-01-15 22:15

Updated : 2023-12-10 13:41


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')