CVE-2017-2675

high
Published 2017-04-06 ยท Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
7.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.8

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
obdevlittle_snitch3.0
obdevlittle_snitch3.0.1
obdevlittle_snitch3.0.2
obdevlittle_snitch3.0.3
obdevlittle_snitch3.0.4
obdevlittle_snitch3.1
obdevlittle_snitch3.1.1
obdevlittle_snitch3.3
obdevlittle_snitch3.3.1
obdevlittle_snitch3.3.2
obdevlittle_snitch3.3.3
obdevlittle_snitch3.3.4
obdevlittle_snitch3.4
obdevlittle_snitch3.4.1
obdevlittle_snitch3.4.2
obdevlittle_snitch3.5
obdevlittle_snitch3.5.1
obdevlittle_snitch3.5.2
obdevlittle_snitch3.5.3
obdevlittle_snitch3.6
obdevlittle_snitch3.6.1
objective_developmentlittle_snitch3.6.2
objective_developmentlittle_snitch3.6.3
objective_developmentlittle_snitch3.6.4
objective_developmentlittle_snitch3.7
objective_developmentlittle_snitch3.7.1
objective_developmentlittle_snitch3.7.2
objective_developmentlittle_snitch3.7.3

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.