# 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.

- **Severity:** High 7.8 (`CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 6 Apr 2017
- **Updated:** 5 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-c2hm-xxfw-m5qj

## 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: 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

- [CVE-2020-13095](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-13095/): Privilege escalation in Little Snitch (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2016-8661](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-8661/): Memory corruption in Little Snitch version 3.0 through 3.6.1 (high 8.4)
- [CVE-2019-13013](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-13013/): Privilege escalation in Little Snitch (medium 5.5)
- [CVE-2019-13014](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-13014/): Little Snitch versions 4.4.0 fixes a vulnerability in a privileged helper tool. (medium 5.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2017-2675 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-2675 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Objective Development Software GmbH Little Snitch. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-2675/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-2675/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-2675
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-2675
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-2675

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