A vulnerability was found in Apple macOS up to 10.15.5 (Operating System). It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown functionality of the component Audio. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was shared 07/15/2020 by JunDong Xie and XingWei Li with Ant-financial Light-Year Security Lab as HT211289 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is shared at support.apple.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2020-9891. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 07/17/2020). It is expected to see the exploit prices for this product increasing in the near future. The advisory points out:

An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.

Upgrading to version 10.15.6 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The entries 158579, 158609, 158628 and 158645 are related to this item.

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• macOS

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• 10.15.0
• 10.15.1
• 10.15.2
• 10.15.3
• 10.15.4
• 10.15.5

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