CVE-2020-9853 - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Apple	Mac Os X

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

No data.

References

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

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: apple

Published: 2020-10-22T17:53:45

Updated: 2024-08-04T10:43:05.399Z

Reserved: 2020-03-02T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2020-9853

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2020-10-22T18:15:13.830

Modified: 2021-07-21T11:39:23.747

Link: CVE-2020-9853

Redhat

No data.

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