PT-2019-19119 · Apple · Apple Macos

Lilang Wu + 1 · Published 2019-05-30 · Updated 2020-08-24 · CVE-2019-8616

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

AV: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.

Fix

Memory Corruption

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-787

Related Identifiers

CVE-2019-8616

ZDI-19-538

Affected Products

Apple Macos

References · 4

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-8616 · Vendor Advisory
• https://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-19-538 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-8616 · Security Note
• https://support.apple.com/HT210119 · Vendor Advisory