PT-2020-4291 · Apple+7 · Safari+8

Brendan Draper · Published 2020-09-21 · Updated 2022-07-23 · CVE-2020-9948

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

10

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Safari versions prior to 14.0

Description: A type confusion issue was addressed with improved memory handling, which may lead to arbitrary code execution when processing maliciously crafted web content. This issue is related to a buffer overflow in the WebKit component of Apple Safari, allowing a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code.

Recommendations: For versions prior to 14.0, update to Safari 14.0 to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the processing of maliciously crafted web content until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

Type Confusion

Memory Corruption

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-843

CWE-787

Related Identifiers

ALSA-2021:1586

BDU:2020-04784

CESA-2021_1586

CVE-2020-9948

DSA-4797-1

DSA-4797-2

MGASA-2020-0441

OPENSUSE-SU-2020:2304-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2020:2310-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2020_2304-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2020_2310-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2022:0182-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2022_0182-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2022_0182-2

RHSA-2021:1586

RHSA-2021_1586

RHSA-2025:10364

RLSA-2021:1586

SUSE-SU-2020:3864-1

SUSE-SU-2020:3867-1

SUSE-SU-2021:1990-1

SUSE-SU-2022:0142-1

SUSE-SU-2022:0182-1

SUSE-SU-2022:0182-2

SUSE-SU-2022:0183-1

USN-4648-1

ZDI-20-1214

Affected Products

Almalinux

Centos

Linuxmint

Red Hat

Rocky Linux

Safari

Suse

Ubuntu

Webkit

References · 207

• 🔥❌ https://github.com/PeterMxx/ps4_8.00_vuln_poc · Exploit, Deleted
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2021:1990-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-9948 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2020-0441 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2020-9948 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2022:0142-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-9951 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2022:0182-2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-9948 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2020:3864-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-10 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4648-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-4797-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-9948 · Security Note
• https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2021-1586.html · Vendor Advisory