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macOS Catalina 10.15
Released October 7, 2019
AMD
Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later)
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
apache_mod_php
Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later)
Impact: Multiple issues in PHP
Description: Multiple issues were addressed by updating to PHP version 7.3.8.
CVE-2019-11041
CVE-2019-11042
Audio
Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later)
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
Entry added October 29, 2019
Audio
Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later)
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 added December 4, 2019
Books
Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later)
Impact: Parsing a maliciously crafted iBooks file may lead to a persistent denial-of-service
Description: A resource exhaustion issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2019-8774: Gertjan Franken imec-DistriNet of KU Leuven
Entry added October 29, 2019
CFNetwork
Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later)
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to a cross site scripting attack
Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2019-8753: Łukasz Pilorz of Standard Chartered GBS Poland
Entry added October 29, 2019
CoreAudio
Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later)
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
CoreAudio
Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later)
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
CoreCrypto
Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later)
Impact: Processing a large input may lead to a denial of service
Description: A denial of service issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2019-8741: Nicky Mouha of NIST
Entry added October 29, 2019
CoreMedia
Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later)
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 October 29, 2019
Crash Reporter
Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later)
Impact: The 'Share Mac Analytics' setting may not be disabled when a user deselects the switch to share analytics
Description: A race condition existed when reading and writing user preferences. This was addressed with improved state handling.
CVE-2019-8757: William Cerniuk of Core Development, LLC
CUPS
Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later)
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)
Entry added October 29, 2019
CUPS
Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later)
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
Entry added October 29, 2019
CUPS
Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later)
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)
Entry added October 29, 2019
dyld
Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later)
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-2019-8776: Jann Horn of Google Project Zero
Entry added February 3, 2020
File Quarantine
Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later)
Impact: A malicious application may be able to elevate privileges
Description: This issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code.
CVE-2019-8509: CodeColorist of Ant-Financial LightYear Labs
Entry added October 29, 2019
Foundation
Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later)
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: natashenka and Samuel Groß of Google Project Zero
Entry added October 29, 2019
Graphics
Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later)
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
Entry added October 29, 2019
IOGraphics
Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later)
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
Entry added October 29, 2019
Intel Graphics Driver
Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later)
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-2019-8758: Lilang Wu and Moony Li of Trend Micro
IOGraphics
Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later)
Impact: A malicious application may be able to determine kernel memory layout
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved restrictions.
CVE-2019-8755: Lilang Wu and Moony Li of Trend Micro
Kernel
Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later)
Impact: An application may be able to gain elevated privileges
Description: This issue was addressed with improved entitlements.
CVE-2019-8703: an anonymous researcher
Entry added March 16, 2021
Kernel
Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later)
Impact: A local app may be able to read a persistent account identifier
Description: A validation issue was addressed with improved logic.
CVE-2019-8809: Apple
Entry added October 29, 2019
Kernel
Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later)
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
Entry added October 29, 2019
Kernel
Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later)
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
Kernel
Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later)
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)
CVE-2019-8781: Linus Henze (pinauten.de)
Entry updated October 29, 2019
libxml2
Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later)
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
Entry added October 29, 2019
libxslt
Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later)
Impact: Multiple issues in libxslt
Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2019-8750: found by OSS-Fuzz
Entry added October 29, 2019
mDNSResponder
Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later)
Impact: An attacker in physical proximity may be able to passively observe device names in AWDL communications
Description: This issue was resolved by replacing device names with a random identifier.
CVE-2019-8799: David Kreitschmann and Milan Stute of Secure Mobile Networking Lab at Technische Universität Darmstadt
Entry added October 29, 2019
Menus
Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later)
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2019-8826: Found by GWP-ASan in Google Chrome
Entry added October 29, 2019
Notes
Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later)
Impact: A local user may be able to view a user’s locked notes
Description: The contents of locked notes sometimes appeared in search results. This issue was addressed with improved data cleanup.
CVE-2019-8730: Jamie Blumberg (@jamie_blumberg) of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
PDFKit
Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later)
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
PluginKit
Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later)
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
Entry added October 29, 2019
PluginKit
Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later)
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-2019-8715: an anonymous researcher
Entry added October 29, 2019
Sandbox
Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later)
Impact: A malicious application may be able to access restricted files
Description: An access issue was addressed with additional sandbox restrictions.
CVE-2019-8855: Apple
Entry added December 18, 2019
SharedFileList
Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later)
Impact: A malicious application may be able to access recent documents
Description: The issue was addressed with improved permissions logic.
CVE-2019-8770: Stanislav Zinukhov of Parallels International GmbH
sips
Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later)
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-2019-8701: Simon Huang(@HuangShaomang), Rong Fan(@fanrong1992) and pjf of IceSword Lab of Qihoo 360
UIFoundation
Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later)
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: Paulos Yibelo of Limehats, Renee Trisberg of SpectX
Entry updated August 10, 2020
UIFoundation
Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later)
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
UIFoundation
Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later)
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 November 18, 2019
WebKit
Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later)
Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may reveal browsing history
Description: An issue existed in the drawing of web page elements. The issue was addressed with improved logic.
CVE-2019-8769: Piérre Reimertz (@reimertz)
WebKit
Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later)
Impact: A user may be unable to delete browsing history items
Description: 'Clear History and Website Data' did not clear the history. The issue was addressed with improved data deletion.
CVE-2019-8768: Hugo S. Diaz (coldpointblue)
Wi-Fi
Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later)
Impact: A device may be passively tracked by its Wi-Fi MAC address
Description: A user privacy issue was addressed by removing the broadcast MAC address.
CVE-2019-8854: FuriousMacTeam of the United States Naval Academy and the Mitre Cooperation, Ta-Lun Yen of UCCU Hacker
Entry added December 4, 2019, updated December 18, 2019
Additional recognition
AppleRTC
We would like to acknowledge Vitaly Cheptsov for their assistance.
Entry added October 29, 2019
Audio
We would like to acknowledge riusksk of VulWar Corp working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative for their assistance.
Entry added October 29, 2019
boringssl
We would like to acknowledge Nimrod Aviram of Tel Aviv University, Robert Merget of Ruhr University Bochum, Juraj Somorovsky of Ruhr University Bochum, Thijs Alkemade (@xnyhps) of Computest for their assistance.
Entry added October 8, 2019, updated October 29, 2019
curl
We would like to acknowledge Joseph Barisa of The School District of Philadelphia for their assistance.
Entry added February 3, 2020, updated February 11, 2020
Finder
We would like to acknowledge Csaba Fitzl (@theevilbit) for their assistance.
Gatekeeper
We would like to acknowledge Csaba Fitzl (@theevilbit) for their assistance.
Identity Service
We would like to acknowledge Yiğit Can YILMAZ (@yilmazcanyigit) for their assistance.
Entry added October 29, 2019
Kernel
We would like to acknowledge Brandon Azad of Google Project Zero, Vlad Tsyrklevich for their assistance.
Entry updated July 28, 2020
Local Authentication
We would like to acknowledge Ryan Lopopolo for their assistance.
Entry added February 3, 2020
mDNSResponder
We would like to acknowledge Gregor Lang of e.solutions GmbH for their assistance.
Entry added October 29, 2019
python
We would like to acknowledge an anonymous researcher for their assistance.
Entry added October 29, 2019
Safari Data Importing
We would like to acknowledge Kent Zoya for their assistance.
Security
We would like to acknowledge Pepijn Dutour Geerling (pepijn.io), an anonymous researcher for their assistance.
Entry added November 18, 2019
Simple certificate enrollment protocol (SCEP)
We would like to acknowledge an anonymous researcher for their assistance.
Siri
We would like to acknowledge Yuval Ron, Amichai Shulman and Eli Biham of Technion of Israel Institute of Technology for their assistance.
Entry added December 4, 2019, updated December 18, 2019
Telephony
We would like to acknowledge Phil Stokes of SentinelOne for their assistance.
VPN
We would like to acknowledge Royce Gawron of Second Son Consulting, Inc. for their assistance.
Entry added October 29, 2019
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.
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: natashenka 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
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
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
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
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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 Mojave 10.14.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.6
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: Paulos Yibelo of Limehats, Renee Trisberg of SpectX
Entry updated August 10, 2020
11042 Mac Os Sierra
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.
Find My
We would like to acknowledge Amr Elseehy for their assistance.
Entry added July 28, 2020
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.
Mac Os Versions
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
We would like to acknowledge an anonymous researcher for their assistance.
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VPN
We would like to acknowledge Royce Gawron of Second Son Consulting, Inc. for their assistance.