CVE-2024-7915 HIGH

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

Vendor Sensei
Product Sensei Mac Cleaner
Weakness CWE-863 · Incorrect authorization
Published November 25, 2024
Last update November 25, 2024

CVSS base score

7.8/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Confidentiality High
Integrity High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

November 25, 2024 CVE published
November 25, 2024 Record updated

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