VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2020-9855
A local attacker may be able to elevate their privileges.
HIGH 7.8EPSS 0.27%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.27%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
A validation issue existed in the handling of symlinks. This issue was addressed with improved validation of symlinks. This issue is fixed in macOS Catalina 10.15.5. A local attacker may be able to elevate their privileges.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.27% probability · 20th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-20
- Affected
- apple/mac os x
- Source
- product-security@apple.com
References
- https://support.apple.com/HT211170Vendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/HT211170Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.