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CVE-2019-8709 — A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management

A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in macOS Catalina 10.15, tvOS 13, macOS Catalina 10.15.1, Security Update 2019-001, and Security Update 2019-006, watchOS 6, iOS 13. An application may be able to execute arbitrary code wi

CVSS
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EPSS
0.50% (top 34.30%)
CWE
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Published
2020-10-27T19:42:05.000Z
Last modified
2024-08-04T21:24:29.717Z
CVSS vector
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01What is this vulnerability?

A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in macOS Catalina 10.15, tvOS 13, macOS Catalina 10.15.1, Security Update 2019-001, and Security Update 2019-006, watchOS 6, iOS 13. An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
AppletvOSunspecified
AppleiOSunspecified
ApplewatchOSunspecified
ApplemacOSunspecified
ApplemacOSunspecified

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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