PT-2019-19119

CVE-2019-8616

Published

2019-05-30

Updated

2020-08-24

Description by

CVSS 3.1

7.8

High

MetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions macOS versions prior to 10.14.5

Description A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling, allowing an application to potentially execute arbitrary code with system privileges. The issue is related to an untrusted pointer dereference privilege escalation.

Recommendations For versions prior to 10.14.5, update to macOS Mojave 10.14.5 to resolve the issue.

Exploitability

Fix

Impacts

Researchers

Lilang Wu

Moony Li

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write

Related identifiers