CVE-2024-7915
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedThe 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.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceThe Sensei Mac Cleaner helper tool (org.cindori.SenseiHelper) uses XPC communication with flawed client validation that relies on the caller's PID from NSXPCConnection.processIdentifier. This is vulnerable to PID reuse attacks where a malicious process can impersonate a legitimate privileged client by obtaining the same PID, allowing arbitrary root-level operations including file manipulation, daemon control, and extension loading.
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CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Confirm Sensei Mac Cleaner is installedCheck for the application in /Applications folder using Finder or run: ls /Applications | grep -i SenseiAffected if The Sensei application exists on the system
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Locate the SenseiHelper privileged helper toolCheck for the helper at /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/org.cindori.SenseiHelper using: ls -la /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/Affected if The file org.cindori.SenseiHelper exists in the privileged helper tools directory
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Determine if the helper tool is currently loadedCheck if the XPC service is active by running: launchctl list | grep -i SenseiHelper or ps aux | grep SenseiHelperAffected if The SenseiHelper process or XPC service is currently running
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Inspect XPC service configurationCheck the LaunchDaemon plist at /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.cindori.SenseiHelper.plist to confirm the helper is registered: cat /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.cindori.SenseiHelper.plistAffected if The LaunchDaemon plist exists and references the vulnerable helper tool
A system is affected if Sensei Mac Cleaner with the org.cindori.SenseiHelper XPC service is installed and the helper tool is active, as the PID-based validation vulnerability is present in unpatched versions.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
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From vendor dataReplace PID-based client validation with secure code signing verification (e.g., SecCodeCopyGuestWithAttributes) to properly validate the caller's signing identity and entitlements before executing privileged operations. Users should update to the patched version when available.
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- Implementation6.0 h
- Testing3.0 h
- Review / QA2.0 h
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