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About Apple security updates
For our customers' protection, Apple doesn't disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches or releases are available. Recent releases are listed on the Apple security updates page.
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macOS Catalina 10.15.5, Security Update 2020-003 Mojave, Security Update 2020-003 High Sierra
Released May 26, 2020
Accounts
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15.4
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause a denial of service
Description: A denial of service issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2020-9827: Jannik Lorenz of SEEMOO @ TU Darmstadt
Accounts
Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.6
Impact: A sandboxed process may be able to circumvent sandbox restrictions
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved restrictions.
CVE-2020-9772: Allison Husain of UC Berkeley
AirDrop
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.4
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause a denial of service
Description: A denial of service issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2020-9826: Dor Hadad of Palo Alto Networks
AppleMobileFileIntegrity
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.4
Impact: A malicious application could interact with system processes to access private information and perform privileged actions
Description: An entitlement parsing issue was addressed with improved parsing.
CVE-2020-9842: Linus Henze (pinauten.de)
AppleUSBNetworking
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15.4
Impact: Inserting a USB device that sends invalid messages may cause a kernel panic
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved restrictions.
CVE-2020-9804: Andy Davis of NCC Group
Audio
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15.4
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted audio file may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2020-9815: Yu Zhou (@yuzhou6666) working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative
Audio
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15.4
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted audio file may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2020-9791: Yu Zhou (@yuzhou6666) working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative
Bluetooth
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15.4
Impact: A malicious application may be able to determine kernel memory layout
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2020-9831: Yu Wang of Didi Research America
Calendar
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15.4
Impact: Importing a maliciously crafted calendar invitation may exfiltrate user information
Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2020-3882: Andy Grant of NCC Group
CoreBluetooth
Is there a vm for macos windows 7. Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.6
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to leak sensitive user information
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2020-9828: Jianjun Dai of Qihoo 360 Alpha Lab
CVMS
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15.4
Impact: An application may be able to gain elevated privileges
Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2020-9856: @jinmo123, @setuid0x0_, and @insu_yun_en of @SSLab_Gatech working with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative
DiskArbitration
Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.4
Impact: A malicious application may be able to break out of its sandbox
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2020-9847: Zhuo Liang of Qihoo 360 Vulcan Team working with 360 BugCloud (bugcloud.360.cn)
Find My
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15.4
Impact: A local attacker may be able to elevate their privileges
Description: A validation issue existed in the handling of symlinks. This issue was addressed with improved validation of symlinks.
CVE-2020-9855: Zhongcheng Li(CK01) of Topsec Alpha Team
FontParser
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.4
Impact: Opening a maliciously crafted PDF file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2020-9816: Peter Nguyen Vu Hoang of STAR Labs working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative
ImageIO
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15.4
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2020-3878: Samuel Groß of Google Project Zero
ImageIO
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.4
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2020-9789: Wenchao Li of VARAS@IIE
CVE-2020-9790: Xingwei Lin of Ant-financial Light-Year Security Lab
Intel Graphics Driver
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.4
Impact: A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2020-9822: ABC Research s.r.o
IPSec
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.4
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to leak memory
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2020-9837: Thijs Alkemade of Computest
Kernel
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.4
Impact: A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2020-9821: Xinru Chi and Tielei Wang of Pangu Lab
Kernel
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.4
Impact: A malicious application may be able to determine another application's memory layout
Description: An information disclosure issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code.
CVE-2020-9797: an anonymous researcher
Kernel
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15.4
Impact: A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: An integer overflow was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2020-9852: Tao Huang and Tielei Wang of Pangu Lab
Kernel
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.4
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management.
CVE-2020-9795: Zhuo Liang of Qihoo 360 Vulcan Team
Kernel
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.4
Impact: An application may be able to cause unexpected system termination or write kernel memory
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2020-9808: Xinru Chi and Tielei Wang of Pangu Lab
Kernel
Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.4
Impact: A local user may be able to read kernel memory
Description: An information disclosure issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2020-9811: Tielei Wang of Pangu Lab
CVE-2020-9812: derrek (@derrekr6)
Kernel
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.4
Impact: A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A logic issue existed resulting in memory corruption. This was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2020-9813: Xinru Chi of Pangu Lab
CVE-2020-9814: Xinru Chi and Tielei Wang of Pangu Lab
Kernel
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.4
Impact: A malicious application may be able to determine kernel memory layout
Description: An information disclosure issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2020-9809: Benjamin Randazzo (@____benjamin)
ksh
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.4
Impact: A local user may be able to execute arbitrary shell commands
Description: An issue existed in the handling of environment variables. This issue was addressed with improved validation.
CVE-2019-14868
NSURL
Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6
Impact: A malicious website may be able to exfiltrate autofilled data in Safari
Description: An issue existed in the parsing of URLs. This issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2020-9857: Dlive of Tencent Security Xuanwu Lab
PackageKit
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.4
Impact: A malicious application may be able to gain root privileges
Description: A permissions issue existed. This issue was addressed with improved permission validation.
CVE-2020-9817: Andy Grant of NCC Group
PackageKit
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15.4
Impact: A malicious application may be able to modify protected parts of the file system
Description: An access issue was addressed with improved access restrictions.
CVE-2020-9851: Linus Henze (pinauten.de)
Python
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15.4
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause arbitrary code execution
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved input validation. Appleworks for mac el capitan.
CVE-2020-9793
Sandbox
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15.4
Impact: A malicious application may be able to bypass Privacy preferences
Description: An access issue was addressed with additional sandbox restrictions.
CVE-2020-9825: Sreejith Krishnan R (@skr0x1C0)
Sandbox
Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6
Impact: A user may gain access to protected parts of the file system
Description: This issue was addressed with a new entitlement.
CVE-2020-9771: Csaba Fitzl (@theevilbit) of Offensive Security
Security
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15.4
Impact: A file may be incorrectly rendered to execute JavaScript
Description: A validation issue was addressed with improved input sanitization.
CVE-2020-9788: Wojciech Reguła of SecuRing (https://wojciechregula.blog)
SIP
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15.4
Impact: A non-privileged user may be able to modify restricted network settings
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved restrictions.
CVE-2020-9824: @jamestraynor, Csaba Fitzl (@theevilbit) of Offensive Security
Entry updated June 10, 2020
SQLite
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15.4
Impact: A malicious application may cause a denial of service or potentially disclose memory contents
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2020-9794
System Preferences
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.4
Impact: An application may be able to gain elevated privileges
Description: A race condition was addressed with improved state handling.
CVE-2020-9839: @jinmo123, @setuid0x0_, and @insu_yun_en of @SSLab_Gatech working with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative
USB Audio
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15.4
Impact: A USB device may be able to cause a denial of service
Description: A validation issue was addressed with improved input sanitization.
CVE-2020-9792: Andy Davis of NCC Group
Wi-Fi
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15.4
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory
Description: A double free issue was addressed with improved memory management.
CVE-2020-9844: Ian Beer of Google Project Zero
Wi-Fi
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.4
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2020-9830: Tielei Wang of Pangu Lab
Wi-Fi
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.4
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2020-9834: Yu Wang of Didi Research America
Wi-Fi
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.4
Impact: A local user may be able to read kernel memory
Description: A memory initialization issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
Mac el capitan iso for virtualbox. CVE-2020-9833: Yu Wang of Didi Research America
Wi-Fi
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.4
Impact: A malicious application may be able to determine kernel memory layout
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2020-9832: Yu Wang of Didi Research America
WindowServer
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.4
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: An integer overflow was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2020-9841: ABC Research s.r.o. working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative
zsh
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.4
Impact: A local attacker may be able to elevate their privileges
Description: An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2019-20044: Sam Foxman
Additional recognition
CoreBluetooth
We would like to acknowledge Maximilian von Tschirschnitz (@maxinfosec1) of Technical University Munich and Ludwig Peuckert of Technical University Munich for their assistance.
CoreText
We would like to acknowledge Jiska Classen (@naehrdine) and Dennis Heinze (@ttdennis) of Secure Mobile Networking Lab for their assistance.
Endpoint Security
We would like to acknowledge an anonymous researcher for their assistance.
ImageIO
We would like to acknowledge Lei Sun for their assistance.
IOHIDFamily
We would like to acknowledge Andy Davis of NCC Group for their assistance.
IPSec
We would like to acknowledge Thijs Alkemade of Computest for their assistance.
Login Window
We would like to acknowledge Jon Morby and an anonymous researcher for their assistance.
Sandbox
We would like to acknowledge Jason L Lang of Optum for their assistance.
Spotlight
We would like to acknowledge Csaba Fitzl (@theevilbit) of Offensive Security for their assistance.
About Apple security updates
For our customers' protection, Apple doesn't disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches or releases are available. Recent releases are listed on the Apple security updates page.
Apple security documents reference vulnerabilities by CVE-ID when possible.
For more information about security, see the Apple Product Security page.
macOS Catalina 10.15.1, Security Update 2019-001, Security Update 2019-006
Released October 29, 2019
Accounts
Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Catalina 10.15
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to leak memory
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2019-8787: Steffen Klee of Secure Mobile Networking Lab at Technische Universität Darmstadt
Entry updated February 11, 2020
Accounts
Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.6
Impact: AirDrop transfers may be unexpectedly accepted while in Everyone mode
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved validation.
CVE-2019-8796: Allison Husain of UC Berkeley
Entry added April 4, 2020
AirDrop
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15
Impact: AirDrop transfers may be unexpectedly accepted while in Everyone mode
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved validation.
CVE-2019-8796: Allison Husain of UC Berkeley
Entry added April 4, 2020
AMD
Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.6
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2019-8748: Lilang Wu and Moony Li of TrendMicro Mobile Security Research Team
Entry added February 11, 2020
apache_mod_php
Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.6
Impact: Multiple issues in PHP
Description: Multiple issues were addressed by updating to PHP version 7.3.8.
CVE-2019-11041
CVE-2019-11042
Entry added February 11, 2020
APFS
Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Catalina 10.15
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2019-8824: Mac working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative
Entry added February 11, 2020
App Store
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15
Impact: A local attacker may be able to login to the account of a previously logged in user without valid credentials.
Description: An authentication issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2019-8803: Kiyeon An, 차민규 (CHA Minkyu)
AppleGraphicsControl
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15
Impact: An application may be able to read restricted memory
Description: A validation issue was addressed with improved input sanitization.
CVE-2019-8817: Arash Tohidi
AppleGraphicsControl
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Mojave 10.14.6
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2019-8716: Zhiyi Zhang of Codesafe Team of Legendsec at Qi'anxin Group, Zhuo Liang of Qihoo 360 Vulcan Team
Associated Domains
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15
Impact: Improper URL processing may lead to data exfiltration
Description: An issue existed in the parsing of URLs. This issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2019-8788: Juha Lindstedt of Pakastin, Mirko Tanania, Rauli Rikama of Zero Keyboard Ltd
Audio
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Mojave 10.14.6
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted audio file may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2019-8706: Yu Zhou of Ant-financial Light-Year Security Lab
Audio
Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Catalina 10.15
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2019-8785: Ian Beer of Google Project Zero
CVE-2019-8797: 08Tc3wBB working with SSD Secure Disclosure
Entry updated February 11, 2020
Audio
Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.6
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted audio file may disclose restricted memory
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2019-8850: Anonymous working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative
Entry updated December 18, 2019
Books
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15
Impact: Parsing a maliciously crafted iBooks file may lead to disclosure of user information
Description: A validation issue existed in the handling of symlinks. This issue was addressed with improved validation of symlinks.
CVE-2019-8789: Gertjan Franken of imec-DistriNet, KU Leuven
Contacts
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15
Impact: Processing a maliciously contact may lead to UI spoofing
Description: An inconsistent user interface issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2017-7152: Oliver Paukstadt of Thinking Objects GmbH (to.com)
CoreAudio
Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.6
Impact: Playing a malicious audio file may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2019-8592: riusksk of VulWar Corp working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative
Entry added November 6, 2019
CoreAudio
Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.6
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted movie may result in the disclosure of process memory
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved validation.
CVE-2019-8705: riusksk of VulWar Corp working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative
Entry added February 11, 2020
CoreMedia
Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.6
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2019-8825: Found by GWP-ASan in Google Chrome
Entry added February 11, 2020
CUPS
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Mojave 10.14.6
Impact: An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to leak sensitive user information
Description: An input validation issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2019-8736: Pawel Gocyla of ING Tech Poland (ingtechpoland.com)
CUPS
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Mojave 10.14.6
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted string may lead to heap corruption
Description: A memory consumption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2019-8767: Stephen Zeisberg
CUPS
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Mojave 10.14.6
Impact: An attacker in a privileged position may be able to perform a denial of service attack
Description: A denial of service issue was addressed with improved validation.
CVE-2019-8737: Pawel Gocyla of ING Tech Poland (ingtechpoland.com)
File Quarantine
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Mojave 10.14.6
Impact: A malicious application may be able to elevate privileges
Description: This issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code.
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CVE-2019-8509: CodeColorist of Ant-Financial LightYear Labs
File System Events
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Catalina 10.15
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2019-8798: ABC Research s.r.o. working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative
Foundation
Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.6
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2019-8746: Natalie Silvanovich and Samuel Groß of Google Project Zero
Entry added February 11, 2020
Graphics
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Mojave 10.14.6
Impact: Processing a malicious shader may result in unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2018-12152: Piotr Bania of Cisco Talos
CVE-2018-12153: Piotr Bania of Cisco Talos
CVE-2018-12154: Piotr Bania of Cisco Talos
Graphics Driver
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2019-8784: Vasiliy Vasilyev and Ilya Finogeev of Webinar, LLC
Intel Graphics Driver
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2019-8807: Yu Wang of Didi Research America
IOGraphics
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Mojave 10.14.6
Impact: A local user may be able to cause unexpected system termination or read kernel memory
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2019-8759: another of 360 Nirvan Team
iTunes
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15
Impact: Running the iTunes installer in an untrusted directory may result in arbitrary code execution
Description: A dynamic library loading issue existed in iTunes setup. This was addressed with improved path searching.
CVE-2019-8801: Hou JingYi (@hjy79425575) of Qihoo 360 CERT
Kernel
Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.6
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2019-8709: derrek (@derrekr6) derrek (@derrekr6)
Entry added February 11, 2020
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Kernel
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15
Impact: An application may be able to read restricted memory
Description: A validation issue was addressed with improved input sanitization.
CVE-2019-8794: 08Tc3wBB working with SSD Secure Disclosure
Kernel
Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Catalina 10.15
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2019-8717: Jann Horn of Google Project Zero
CVE-2019-8786: Wen Xu of Georgia Tech, Microsoft Offensive Security Research Intern
Entry updated November 18, 2019, updated February 11, 2020
Kernel
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Mojave 10.14.6
Impact: A malicious application may be able to determine kernel memory layout
Description: A memory corruption issue existed in the handling of IPv6 packets. This issue was addressed with improved memory management.
CVE-2019-8744: Zhuo Liang of Qihoo 360 Vulcan Team
Kernel
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A memory corruption vulnerability was addressed with improved locking.
CVE-2019-8829: Jann Horn of Google Project Zero
Internet Security For Mac
Entry added November 6, 2019
libxml2
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Mojave 10.14.6
Impact: Multiple issues in libxml2
Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2019-8749: found by OSS-Fuzz
CVE-2019-8756: found by OSS-Fuzz
libxslt
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Mojave 10.14.6
Impact: Multiple issues in libxslt
Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2019-8750: found by OSS-Fuzz
manpages
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Catalina 10.15
Impact: A malicious application may be able to gain root privileges
Description: A validation issue was addressed with improved logic.
CVE-2019-8802: Csaba Fitzl (@theevilbit)
PDFKit
Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.6
Impact: An attacker may be able to exfiltrate the contents of an encrypted PDF
Description: An issue existed in the handling of links in encrypted PDFs. This issue was addressed by adding a confirmation prompt.
CVE-2019-8772: Jens Müller of Ruhr University Bochum, Fabian Ising of FH Münster University of Applied Sciences, Vladislav Mladenov of Ruhr University Bochum, Christian Mainka of Ruhr University Bochum, Sebastian Schinzel of FH Münster University of Applied Sciences, and Jörg Schwenk of Ruhr University Bochum
Entry added February 11, 2020
PluginKit
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Mojave 10.14.6
Impact: A local user may be able to check for the existence of arbitrary files
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved restrictions.
CVE-2019-8708: an anonymous researcher
PluginKit
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Mojave 10.14.6
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges
Trend Micro Security For Mac Catalina 2017
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2019-8715: an anonymous researcher
Screen Sharing Server
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15
Impact: A user who shares their screen may not be able to end screen sharing
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2019-8858: Saul van der Bijl of Saul’s Place Counseling B.V.
Entry added December 18, 2019
System Extensions
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges
Description: A validation issue existed in the entitlement verification. This issue was addressed with improved validation of the process entitlement.
CVE-2019-8805: Scott Knight (@sdotknight) of VMware Carbon Black TAU
UIFoundation
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15
Impact: A malicious HTML document may be able to render iframes with sensitive user information
Description: A cross-origin issue existed with 'iframe' elements. This was addressed with improved tracking of security origins.
CVE-2019-8754: Renee Trisberg of SpectX
Entry added February 24, 2020
UIFoundation
Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.6
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted text file may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: A buffer overflow was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2019-8745: riusksk of VulWar Corp working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative
Entry added February 11, 2020
UIFoundation
Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.6
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2019-8831: riusksk of VulWar Corp working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative
Entry added February 11, 2020
UIFoundation
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Mojave 10.14.6
Impact: Parsing a maliciously crafted text file may lead to disclosure of user information
Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2019-8761: Renee Trisberg of SpectX
Wi-Fi
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15
Impact: An attacker in Wi-Fi range may be able to view a small amount of network traffic
Description: A logic issue existed in the handling of state transitions. This was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2019-15126: Milos Cermak at ESET
Entry added February 11, 2020
Additional recognition
CFNetwork
We would like to acknowledge Lily Chen of Google for their assistance.
Kernel
We would like to acknowledge Brandon Azad of Google Project Zero, Daniel Roethlisberger of Swisscom CSIRT, Jann Horn of Google Project Zero for their assistance.
Entry updated November 6, 2019
libresolv
We would like to acknowledge enh at Google for their assistance.
Local Authentication
We would like to acknowledge Ryan Lopopolo for their assistance.
Entry added February 11, 2020
mDNSResponder
We would like to acknowledge Gregor Lang of e.solutions GmbH for their assistance.
Entry added February 11, 2020
Postfix
We would like to acknowledge Chris Barker of Puppet for their assistance.
python
Trend Micro Security For Mac Catalina Island
We would like to acknowledge an anonymous researcher for their assistance.
Trend Micro Security For Mac Catalina Bay
VPN
Antivirus For Mac
We would like to acknowledge Royce Gawron of Second Son Consulting, Inc. for their assistance.