CVE-2020-14978: F-Secure Safe

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 3.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in F-Secure SAFE 17.7 on macOS. Due to incorrect client version verification, an attacker can connect to a privileged XPC service, and execute privileged commands on the system. NOTE: the attacker needs to execute code on an already compromised machine.

Affected products

• F-Secure Safe: version 17.7 only

Published 2020-06-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.