{"id":"CVE-2020-14978","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2020-14978","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T23:42:58.175Z","title":"Due to incorrect client version verification, an attacker can connect to a privileged XPC service, and execute privileged commands on the system.","description":"An issue was discovered in F-Secure SAFE 17.7 on macOS. Due to incorrect client version verification, an attacker can connect to a privileged XPC service, and execute privileged commands on the system. NOTE: the attacker needs to execute code on an already compromised machine.","published":"2020-06-23T20:15:13.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T02:55:52.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":8.1,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":[],"affected":["f-secure/safe"],"epss":{"score":0.03141,"percentile":0.8782,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (3.14%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://theevilbit.github.io/posts/","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.f-secure.com/en/business/programs/vulnerability-reward-program/hall-of-fame","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.f-secure.com/en/home/products/safe","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://theevilbit.github.io/posts/","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.f-secure.com/en/business/programs/vulnerability-reward-program/hall-of-fame","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.f-secure.com/en/home/products/safe","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-14978","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}