CVE-2019-13013 — Little Snitch versions 4.3.0 to 4.3.2 have a local privilege escalation vulnerability in their privileged helper tool

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MEDIUM

Little Snitch versions 4.3.0 to 4.3.2 have a local privilege escalation vulnerability in their privileged helper tool

Published Aug 23, 2019

5.5

MEDIUM

CVSS 3.1

EPSS 0.30%

Description

Little Snitch versions 4.3.0 to 4.3.2 have a local privilege escalation vulnerability in their privileged helper tool. The privileged helper tool implements an XPC interface which is available to any process and allows directory listings and copying files as root.

Affected products

Vendor n/a Product Little Snitch Default
n/a
- Version
  4.3 - 4.3.2
  Status
  affected
  Constraints
  -

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor

Product

Default status

Versions

n/a

Little Snitch

n/a

Version	Status	Constraints
4.3 - 4.3.2	affected	-

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.30% 0.00303

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 3, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00303

Score over time

2021–2026

EPSS v1
EPSS v5
EPSS v2
EPSS v3

Percentile over time

EPSS v1
EPSS v5
EPSS v2
EPSS v3

Table of values (8 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 3, 2026	0.30% (0.00303)	20.96th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Sep 20, 2026	0.30% (0.00303)	23.25th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jul 20, 2024	0.04% (0.00042)	5.06th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00042)	5.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00885)	27.89th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.40% (0.01404)	49.02th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 3, 2022	0.14% (0.00145)	0.53th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Apr 14, 2021	0.03% (0.00032)	0.00th	v1