CVE-2020-9934 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

An issue existed in the handling of environment variables. This issue was addressed with improved validation. This issue is fixed in iOS 13.6 and iPadOS 13.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.6. A local user may be able to view sensitive user information.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

This CVE is in the KEV database since Sept. 8, 2022.

The EPSS score is 0.01782.

Exploitation active

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Apple	Ipados Iphone Os Mac Os X

Configuration 1 [-]

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

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2020-30713	An issue existed in the handling of environment variables. This issue was addressed with improved validation. This issue is fixed in iOS 13.6 and iPadOS 13.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.6. A local user may be able to view sensitive user information.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://support.apple.com/HT211288
https://support.apple.com/HT211289

History

Wed, 29 Jan 2025 18:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		kev `{'dateAdded': '2022-09-08'}` ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'active', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: apple

Published: 2020-10-16T16:51:05.000Z

Updated: 2025-07-30T01:45:34.738Z

Reserved: 2020-03-02T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-9934

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T10:50:56.270Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2020-10-16T17:15:17.637

Modified: 2025-02-28T14:44:48.713

Link: CVE-2020-9934

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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