Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-9853 - Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in Apple mac OS X

CVSS 7.8 - HIGH

Attack vector

LOCAL

Attack complexity

LOW

Privileges required

NONE

Confidentiality impact

HIGH

Integrity impact

HIGH

Availability impact

HIGH

local

low complexity

apple

CWE-787

NVD

Published: 2020-10-22

Updated: 2021-07-21

Summary

A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved validation. This issue is fixed in macOS Catalina 10.15.4. A malicious application may be able to determine kernel memory layout.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part	Description	Count
OS	Apple Apple MAC OS X - Apple MAC OS X 10.0 Apple MAC OS X 10.0.0 Apple MAC OS X 10.0.1 Apple MAC OS X 10.0.2 Apple MAC OS X 10.0.3 Apple MAC OS X 10.0.4 Apple MAC OS X 10.1 Apple MAC OS X 10.1.0 Apple MAC OS X 10.1.1 Apple MAC OS X 10.1.2 Apple MAC OS X 10.1.3 Apple MAC OS X 10.1.4 Apple MAC OS X 10.1.5 Apple MAC OS X 10.2 Apple MAC OS X 10.2.0 Apple MAC OS X 10.2.1 Apple MAC OS X 10.2.2 Apple MAC OS X 10.2.3 Apple MAC OS X 10.2.4 Apple MAC OS X 10.2.5 Apple MAC OS X 10.2.6 Apple MAC OS X 10.2.7 Apple MAC OS X 10.2.8 Apple MAC OS X 10.3 Apple MAC OS X 10.3.0 Apple MAC OS X 10.3.1 Apple MAC OS X 10.3.2 Apple MAC OS X 10.3.3 Apple MAC OS X 10.3.4 Apple MAC OS X 10.3.5 Apple MAC OS X 10.3.6 Apple MAC OS X 10.3.7 Apple MAC OS X 10.3.8 Apple MAC OS X 10.3.9 Apple MAC OS X 10.4 Apple MAC OS X 10.4.0 Apple MAC OS X 10.4.1 Apple MAC OS X 10.4.2 Apple MAC OS X 10.4.3 Apple MAC OS X 10.4.4 Apple MAC OS X 10.4.5 Apple MAC OS X 10.4.6 Apple MAC OS X 10.4.7 Apple MAC OS X 10.4.8 Apple MAC OS X 10.4.9 Apple MAC OS X 10.4.10 Apple MAC OS X 10.4.11 Apple MAC OS X 10.5 Apple MAC OS X 10.5.0 Apple MAC OS X 10.5.1 Apple MAC OS X 10.5.2 Apple MAC OS X 10.5.3 Apple MAC OS X 10.5.4 Apple MAC OS X 10.5.5 Apple MAC OS X 10.5.6 Apple MAC OS X 10.5.7 Apple MAC OS X 10.5.8 Apple MAC OS X 10.6.0 Apple MAC OS X 10.6.1 Apple MAC OS X 10.6.2 Apple MAC OS X 10.6.3 Apple MAC OS X 10.6.4 Apple MAC OS X 10.6.5 Apple MAC OS X 10.6.6 Apple MAC OS X 10.6.7 Apple MAC OS X 10.6.8 Apple MAC OS X 10.7.0 Apple MAC OS X 10.7.1 Apple MAC OS X 10.7.2 Apple MAC OS X 10.7.3 Apple MAC OS X 10.7.4 Apple MAC OS X 10.7.5 Apple MAC OS X 10.8.0 Apple MAC OS X 10.8.1 Apple MAC OS X 10.8.2 Apple MAC OS X 10.8.3 Apple MAC OS X 10.8.4 Apple MAC OS X 10.8.5 Apple MAC OS X 10.9 Apple MAC OS X 10.9.1 Apple MAC OS X 10.9.2 Apple MAC OS X 10.9.3 Apple MAC OS X 10.9.4 Apple MAC OS X 10.9.5 Apple MAC OS X 10.10.0 Apple MAC OS X 10.10.1 Apple MAC OS X 10.10.2 Apple MAC OS X 10.10.3 Apple MAC OS X 10.10.4 Apple MAC OS X 10.10.5 Apple MAC OS X 10.11.0 Apple MAC OS X 10.11.1 Apple MAC OS X 10.11.2 Apple MAC OS X 10.11.3 Apple MAC OS X 10.11.4 Apple MAC OS X 10.11.5 Apple MAC OS X 10.11.6 Apple MAC OS X 10.12 Apple MAC OS X 10.12.0 Apple MAC OS X 10.12.1 Apple MAC OS X 10.12.2 Apple MAC OS X 10.12.3 Apple MAC OS X 10.12.4 Apple MAC OS X 10.12.5 Apple MAC OS X 10.12.6 Apple MAC OS X 10.13 Apple MAC OS X 10.13.0 Apple MAC OS X 10.13.1 Apple MAC OS X 10.13.2 Apple MAC OS X 10.13.3 Apple MAC OS X 10.13.4 Apple MAC OS X 10.13.5 Apple MAC OS X 10.13.6 Apple MAC OS X 10.14 Apple MAC OS X 10.14.0 Apple MAC OS X 10.14.1 Apple MAC OS X 10.14.2 Apple MAC OS X 10.14.3 Apple MAC OS X 10.14.4 Apple MAC OS X 10.14.5 Apple MAC OS X 10.14.6 Apple MAC OS X 10.15 Apple MAC OS X 10.15.1 Apple MAC OS X 10.15.2 Apple MAC OS X 10.15.3	186

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

CWE-787 - Out-of-bounds Write

References

https://support.apple.com/kb/HT211100