CVE-2017-2675 Privilege escalation in Little Snitch
A local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Little Snitch installer allows attackers to gain elevated privileges via configuration file manipulation.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2017-2675?
CVE-2017-2675 is a high-severity vulnerability in Objective Development Software GmbH Little Snitch, published on 6 Apr 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Little Snitch version 3.0 through 3.7.3 suffer from a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the installer part. The vulnerability is related to the installation of the configuration file "at.obdev.littlesnitchd.plist" which gets installed to /Library/LaunchDaemons.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-2675?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Obdev Little Snitch, Objective Development Little Snitch.
How do I fix CVE-2017-2675?
No fix has been published for CVE-2017-2675 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2017-2675 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-2675 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Objective Development Software GmbH Little Snitch
Sources
Also known as GHSA-c2hm-xxfw-m5qj.