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Unscored CVE-2020-25533 EUVD-2020-18218GHSA-p523-j8f3-523j

An issue was discovered in Malwarebytes before 4.0 on macOS. A malicious application was able to perform a privileged action within the Mal…

Published Jan 15, 2021 · Updated Aug 4, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

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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.

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