Apple today released macOS Catalina 10.15.1, the first update to the macOS Catalina operating system that was released in October. macOS Catalina can be downloaded from the Mac App Store for free. Apple Today Released macOS Catalina 10.15 Supplemental Update (19A602) In a surprise today Apple released a new Supplemental updates for macOS Catalina 10.15. It's a little strange that we are getting a Supplemental Update instead of 10.15.1. This update was most likely released due to the Setup Assistant Bug that plagued users.
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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 10.15.4, Security Update 2020-002 Mojave, Security Update 2020-002 High Sierra
Released March 24, 2020
Accounts
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15.3
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
Entry added May 21, 2020
Apple HSSPI Support
Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.3
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-2020-3903: Proteas of Qihoo 360 Nirvan Team
Entry updated May 1, 2020
AppleGraphicsControl
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.3
Impact: A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2020-3904: Proteas of Qihoo 360 Nirvan Team
AppleMobileFileIntegrity
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15.3
Impact: An application may be able to use arbitrary entitlements
Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2020-3883: Linus Henze (pinauten.de)
Bluetooth
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15.3
Impact: An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to intercept Bluetooth traffic
Description: An issue existed with the use of a PRNG with low entropy. This issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2020-6616: Jörn Tillmanns (@matedealer) and Jiska Classen (@naehrdine) of Secure Mobile Networking Lab
Entry added May 21, 2020
Bluetooth
Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.3
Impact: A malicious application may be able to determine kernel memory layout
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved validation.
CVE-2020-9853: Yu Wang of Didi Research America
Entry added May 21, 2020
Bluetooth
Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.3
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 input validation.
CVE-2020-3907: Yu Wang of Didi Research America
CVE-2020-3908: Yu Wang of Didi Research America
CVE-2020-3912: Yu Wang of Didi Research America
CVE-2020-9779: Yu Wang of Didi Research America
Entry updated September 21, 2020
Bluetooth
Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.3
Impact: A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2020-3892: Yu Wang of Didi Research America
CVE-2020-3893: Yu Wang of Didi Research America
CVE-2020-3905: Yu Wang of Didi Research America
Bluetooth
Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.6
Impact: An application may be able to read restricted memory
Description: A validation issue was addressed with improved input sanitization.
CVE-2019-8853: Jianjun Dai of Qihoo 360 Alpha Lab
Call History
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15.3
Impact: A malicious application may be able to access a user's call history
Description: This issue was addressed with a new entitlement.
CVE-2020-9776: Benjamin Randazzo (@____benjamin)
CoreBluetooth
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15.3
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
Entry added May 13, 2020
CoreFoundation
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15.3
Impact: A malicious application may be able to elevate privileges
Description: A permissions issue existed. This issue was addressed with improved permission validation.
CVE-2020-3913: Timo Christ of Avira Operations GmbH & Co. KG
CoreText
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15.3
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted text message may lead to application denial of service
Description: A validation issue was addressed with improved input sanitization.
CVE-2020-9829: Aaron Perris (@aaronp613), an anonymous researcher, an anonymous researcher, Carlos S Tech, Sam Menzies of Sam's Lounge, Sufiyan Gouri of Lovely Professional University, India, Suleman Hasan Rathor of Arabic-Classroom.com
Entry added May 21, 2020
CUPS
Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.3
Impact: An application may be able to gain elevated privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved validation.
CVE-2020-3898: Stephan Zeisberg (github.com/stze) of Security Research Labs (srlabs.de)
Entry added April 8, 2020
FaceTime
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15.3
Impact: A local user may be able to view sensitive user information
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2020-3881: Yuval Ron, Amichai Shulman and Eli Biham of Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Intel Graphics Driver
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15.3
Impact: A malicious application may disclose restricted memory
Description: An information disclosure issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2019-14615: Wenjian HE of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Wei Zhang of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Sharad Sinha of Indian Institute of Technology Goa, and Sanjeev Das of University of North Carolina
IOHIDFamily
Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.3
Impact: A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A memory initialization issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2020-3919: Alex Plaskett of F-Secure Consulting
Entry updated May 21, 2020
IOThunderboltFamily
Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.6
Impact: An application may be able to gain elevated privileges
Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management.
CVE-2020-3851: Xiaolong Bai and Min (Spark) Zheng of Alibaba Inc. and Luyi Xing of Indiana University Bloomington
Kernel
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.3
Impact: An application may be able to read restricted memory
Description: A memory initialization issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2020-3914: pattern-f (@pattern_F_) of WaCai
Kernel
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15.3
Impact: A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2020-9785: Proteas of Qihoo 360 Nirvan Team
libxml2
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.3
Impact: Multiple issues in libxml2
Description: A buffer overflow was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2020-3909: LGTM.com
CVE-2020-3911: found by OSS-Fuzz
libxml2
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.3
Impact: Multiple issues in libxml2
Description: A buffer overflow was addressed with improved size validation.
CVE-2020-3910: LGTM.com
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.3
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause arbitrary javascript code execution
Description: An injection issue was addressed with improved validation.
CVE-2020-3884: Apple
Printing
Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.3
Impact: A malicious application may be able to overwrite arbitrary files
Description: A path handling issue was addressed with improved validation.
CVE-2020-3915: An anonymous researcher working with iDefense Labs (https://vcp.idefense.com/), HyungSeok Han (DaramG) @Theori working with TrendMicro's Zero Day Initiative
Entry added May 1, 2020
Safari
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15.3
Impact: A user's private browsing activity may be unexpectedly saved in Screen Time
Description: An issue existed in the handling of tabs displaying picture in picture video. The issue was corrected with improved state handling.
CVE-2020-9775: Andrian (@retroplasma), Marat Turaev, Marek Wawro (futurefinance.com) and Sambor Wawro of STO64 School Krakow Poland
Entry added May 13, 2020
Sandbox
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15.3
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
Entry added May 21, 2020
Sandbox
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15.3
Impact: A local user may be able to view sensitive user information
Description: An access issue was addressed with additional sandbox restrictions.
CVE-2020-3918: an anonymous researcher, Augusto Alvarez of Outcourse Limited
Entry added April 8, 2020, updated May 21, 2020
sudo
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15.3
Impact: An attacker may be able to run commands as a non-existent user
Description: This issue was addressed by updating to sudo version 1.8.31.
CVE-2019-19232
sysdiagnose
Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.6
Impact: An application may be able to trigger a sysdiagnose
Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks
CVE-2020-9786: Dayton Pidhirney (@_watbulb) of Seekintoo (@seekintoo)
Entry added April 4, 2020
TCC
Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.3
Impact: A maliciously crafted application may be able to bypass code signing enforcement
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved restrictions.
CVE-2020-3906: Patrick Wardle of Jamf
Time Machine
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15.3
Impact: A local user may be able to read arbitrary files
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2020-3889: Lasse Trolle Borup of Danish Cyber Defence
Vim
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15.3
Impact: Multiple issues in Vim
Description: Multiple issues were addressed by updating to version 8.1.1850.
CVE-2020-9769: Steve Hahn from LinkedIn
WebKit
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15.3
Impact: Some websites may not have appeared in Safari Preferences
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved restrictions.
CVE-2020-9787: Ryan Pickren (ryanpickren.com)
Entry added April 8, 2020
WebKit
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15.3
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to a cross site scripting attack
Description: An input validation issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2020-3902: Yiğit Can YILMAZ (@yilmazcanyigit)
Entry added July 28, 2020
Additional recognition
CoreText
We would like to acknowledge an anonymous researcher for their assistance.
FireWire Audio
We would like to acknowledge Xiaolong Bai and Min (Spark) Zheng of Alibaba Inc. and Luyi Xing of Indiana University Bloomington for their assistance.
FontParser
We would like to acknowledge Matthew Denton of Google Chrome for their assistance.
Installer
We would like to acknowledge Pris Sears of Virginia Tech, Tom Lynch of UAL Creative Computing Institute, an anonymous researcher, an anonymous researcher for their assistance.
Entry added December 15, 2020
Install Framework Legacy
We would like to acknowledge Pris Sears of Virginia Tech, Tom Lynch of UAL Creative Computing Institute, and an anonymous researcher for their assistance.
LinkPresentation
We would like to acknowledge Travis for their assistance.
OpenSSH
We would like to acknowledge an anonymous researcher for their assistance.
rapportd
We would like to acknowledge Alexander Heinrich (@Sn0wfreeze) of Technische Universität Darmstadt for their assistance.
Sidecar
We would like to acknowledge Rick Backley (@rback_sec) for their assistance.
sudo
We would like to acknowledge Giorgio Oppo (linkedin.com/in/giorgio-oppo/) for their assistance.
Entry added April 4, 2020
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
Macos 10.15.6 Download
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved validation.
CVE-2020-3918: an anonymous researcher, Augusto Alvarez of Outcourse Limited
Entry added April 8, 2020, updated May 21, 2020
sudo
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15.3
Impact: An attacker may be able to run commands as a non-existent user
Description: This issue was addressed by updating to sudo version 1.8.31.
CVE-2019-19232
sysdiagnose
Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.6
Impact: An application may be able to trigger a sysdiagnose
Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks
CVE-2020-9786: Dayton Pidhirney (@_watbulb) of Seekintoo (@seekintoo)
Entry added April 4, 2020
TCC
Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.3
Impact: A maliciously crafted application may be able to bypass code signing enforcement
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved restrictions.
CVE-2020-3906: Patrick Wardle of Jamf
Time Machine
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15.3
Impact: A local user may be able to read arbitrary files
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2020-3889: Lasse Trolle Borup of Danish Cyber Defence
Vim
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15.3
Impact: Multiple issues in Vim
Description: Multiple issues were addressed by updating to version 8.1.1850.
CVE-2020-9769: Steve Hahn from LinkedIn
WebKit
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15.3
Impact: Some websites may not have appeared in Safari Preferences
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved restrictions.
CVE-2020-9787: Ryan Pickren (ryanpickren.com)
Entry added April 8, 2020
WebKit
Available for: macOS Catalina 10.15.3
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to a cross site scripting attack
Description: An input validation issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2020-3902: Yiğit Can YILMAZ (@yilmazcanyigit)
Entry added July 28, 2020
Additional recognition
CoreText
We would like to acknowledge an anonymous researcher for their assistance.
FireWire Audio
We would like to acknowledge Xiaolong Bai and Min (Spark) Zheng of Alibaba Inc. and Luyi Xing of Indiana University Bloomington for their assistance.
FontParser
We would like to acknowledge Matthew Denton of Google Chrome for their assistance.
Installer
We would like to acknowledge Pris Sears of Virginia Tech, Tom Lynch of UAL Creative Computing Institute, an anonymous researcher, an anonymous researcher for their assistance.
Entry added December 15, 2020
Install Framework Legacy
We would like to acknowledge Pris Sears of Virginia Tech, Tom Lynch of UAL Creative Computing Institute, and an anonymous researcher for their assistance.
LinkPresentation
We would like to acknowledge Travis for their assistance.
OpenSSH
We would like to acknowledge an anonymous researcher for their assistance.
rapportd
We would like to acknowledge Alexander Heinrich (@Sn0wfreeze) of Technische Universität Darmstadt for their assistance.
Sidecar
We would like to acknowledge Rick Backley (@rback_sec) for their assistance.
sudo
We would like to acknowledge Giorgio Oppo (linkedin.com/in/giorgio-oppo/) for their assistance.
Entry added April 4, 2020
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
Macos 10.15.6 Download
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: 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
Macos Catalina 10.15
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
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
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.
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.
VPN
We would like to acknowledge Royce Gawron of Second Son Consulting, Inc. for their assistance.
