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
Link | Resource |
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https://wojciechregula.blog/post/learn-xpc-exploitation-part-2-say-no-to-the-pid/ | Exploit Patch Third Party Advisory |
Configurations
History
26 Jan 2021, 21:47
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CPE | 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/ - Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory | |
CVSS |
v2 : v3 : |
v2 : 6.9
v3 : 7.0 |
15 Jan 2021, 22:15
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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')