# CVE-2024-7915: macOS Sensei Mac Cleaner Local Privilege Escalation via PID Reuse - Race Condition Attack

> A local attacker can exploit a PID reuse race condition in Sensei Mac Cleaner to impersonate a legitimate client and execute arbitrary code as root.

- **Severity:** High 7.8 (`CVSS:3.1/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:** 25 Nov 2024
- **Updated:** 25 Nov 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-vgfw-cgxj-f63c

## What is CVE-2024-7915?

CVE-2024-7915 is a high-severity vulnerability in Sensei Mac Cleaner, published on 25 Nov 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The application Sensei Mac Cleaner contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability, allowing an attacker to perform multiple operations as the root user. These operations include arbitrary file deletion and writing, loading and unloading daemons, manipulating file permissions, and loading extensions, among other actions.

The vulnerable module org.cindori.SenseiHelper can be contacted via XPC. While the module performs client validation, it relies on the client's PID obtained through the public processIdentifier property of the NSXPCConnection class. This approach makes the module susceptible to a PID Reuse Attack, enabling an attacker to impersonate a legitimate client and send crafted XPC messages to invoke arbitrary methods exposed by the HelperProtocol interface.

Weakness: CWE-863 (Incorrect Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-7915?


## How do I fix CVE-2024-7915?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-7915 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-7915 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-7915 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-7915 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-7915 is a high-severity vulnerability in Sensei Mac Cleaner, published on 25 Nov 2024. 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-2024-7915 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Sensei Mac Cleaner. 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-2024-7915/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-7915/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-7915
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-7915
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-7915

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-7915/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.