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GeezerVison is showing support.apple.com — About the security content of macOS Catalina 10.15 - Apple Support About the security content of macOS Catalina 10.15This document describes the security content of macOS Catalina 10.15. About Apple security updatesFor our customers' protection, Apple doesn't disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches or releases are available. Recent releases are listed on the Apple security updates page. Apple security documents reference vulnerabilities by CVE-ID when possible. For more information about security, see the Apple Product Security page. macOS Catalina 10.15Released October 7, 2019
AMD Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later) Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling. CVE-2019-8748: Lilang Wu and Moony Li of TrendMicro Mobile Security Research Team apache_mod_php Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later) Impact: Multiple issues in PHP Description: Multiple issues were addressed by updating to PHP version 7.3.8. CVE-2019-11041 CVE-2019-11042 Audio Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later) Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted audio file may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management. CVE-2019-8706: Yu Zhou of Ant-Financial Light-Year Security Lab Entry added October 29, 2019
Audio Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later) Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted audio file may disclose restricted memory Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation. CVE-2019-8850: Anonymous working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative Entry added December 4, 2019
Books Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later) Impact: Parsing a maliciously crafted iBooks file may lead to a persistent denial-of-service Description: A resource exhaustion issue was addressed with improved input validation. CVE-2019-8774: Gertjan Franken imec-DistriNet of KU Leuven Entry added October 29, 2019
CFNetwork Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later) Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to a cross site scripting attack Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks. CVE-2019-8753: Łukasz Pilorz of Standard Chartered GBS Poland Entry added October 29, 2019
CoreAudio Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later) Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted movie may result in the disclosure of process memory Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved validation. CVE-2019-8705: riusksk of VulWar Corp working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative CoreAudio Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later) Impact: Playing a malicious audio file may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved input validation. CVE-2019-8592: riusksk of VulWar Corp working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative Entry added November 6, 2019
CoreCrypto Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later) Impact: Processing a large input may lead to a denial of service Description: A denial of service issue was addressed with improved input validation. CVE-2019-8741: Nicky Mouha of NIST Entry added October 29, 2019
CoreMedia Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later) Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management. CVE-2019-8825: Found by GWP-ASan in Google Chrome Entry added October 29, 2019
Crash Reporter Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later) Impact: The "Share Mac Analytics" setting may not be disabled when a user deselects the switch to share analytics Description: A race condition existed when reading and writing user preferences. This was addressed with improved state handling. CVE-2019-8757: William Cerniuk of Core Development, LLC CUPS Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later) Impact: An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to leak sensitive user information Description: An input validation issue was addressed with improved input validation. CVE-2019-8736: Pawel Gocyla of ING Tech Poland (ingtechpoland.com) Entry added October 29, 2019
CUPS Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later) Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted string may lead to heap corruption Description: A memory consumption issue was addressed with improved memory handling. CVE-2019-8767: Stephen Zeisberg Entry added October 29, 2019
CUPS Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later) Impact: An attacker in a privileged position may be able to perform a denial of service attack Description: A denial of service issue was addressed with improved validation. CVE-2019-8737: Pawel Gocyla of ING Tech Poland (ingtechpoland.com) Entry added October 29, 2019
dyld Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later) Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling. CVE-2019-8776: Jann Horn of Google Project Zero Entry added February 3, 2020
File Quarantine Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later) Impact: A malicious application may be able to elevate privileges Description: This issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code. CVE-2019-8509: CodeColorist of Ant-Financial LightYear Labs Entry added October 29, 2019
Foundation Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later) Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation. CVE-2019-8746: natashenka and Samuel Groß of Google Project Zero Entry added October 29, 2019
Graphics Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later) Impact: Processing a malicious shader may result in unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed with improved input validation. CVE-2018-12152: Piotr Bania of Cisco Talos CVE-2018-12153: Piotr Bania of Cisco Talos CVE-2018-12154: Piotr Bania of Cisco Talos Entry added October 29, 2019
IOGraphics Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later) Impact: A local user may be able to cause unexpected system termination or read kernel memory Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking. CVE-2019-8759: another of 360 Nirvan Team Entry added October 29, 2019
Intel Graphics Driver Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later) Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling. CVE-2019-8758: Lilang Wu and Moony Li of Trend Micro IOGraphics Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later) Impact: A malicious application may be able to determine kernel memory layout Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved restrictions. CVE-2019-8755: Lilang Wu and Moony Li of Trend Micro Kernel Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later) Impact: An application may be able to gain elevated privileges Description: This issue was addressed with improved entitlements. CVE-2019-8703: an anonymous researcher Entry added March 16, 2021
Kernel Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later) Impact: A local app may be able to read a persistent account identifier Description: A validation issue was addressed with improved logic. CVE-2019-8809: Apple Entry added October 29, 2019
Kernel Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later) Impact: A malicious application may be able to determine kernel memory layout Description: A memory corruption issue existed in the handling of IPv6 packets. This issue was addressed with improved memory management. CVE-2019-8744: Zhuo Liang of Qihoo 360 Vulcan Team Entry added October 29, 2019
Kernel Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later) Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling. CVE-2019-8717: Jann Horn of Google Project Zero Kernel Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later) Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management. CVE-2019-8709: derrek (@derrekr6) derrek (@derrekr6) CVE-2019-8781: Linus Henze (pinauten.de) Entry updated October 29, 2019
libxml2 Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later) Impact: Multiple issues in libxml2 Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed with improved input validation. CVE-2019-8749: found by OSS-Fuzz CVE-2019-8756: found by OSS-Fuzz Entry added October 29, 2019
libxslt Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later) Impact: Multiple issues in libxslt Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed with improved input validation. CVE-2019-8750: found by OSS-Fuzz Entry added October 29, 2019
mDNSResponder Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later) Impact: An attacker in physical proximity may be able to passively observe device names in AWDL communications Description: This issue was resolved by replacing device names with a random identifier. CVE-2019-8799: David Kreitschmann and Milan Stute of Secure Mobile Networking Lab at Technische Universität Darmstadt Entry added October 29, 2019
Menus Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later) Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management. CVE-2019-8826: Found by GWP-ASan in Google Chrome Entry added October 29, 2019
Notes Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later) Impact: A local user may be able to view a user’s locked notes Description: The contents of locked notes sometimes appeared in search results. This issue was addressed with improved data cleanup. CVE-2019-8730: Jamie Blumberg (@jamie_blumberg) of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University PDFKit Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later) Impact: An attacker may be able to exfiltrate the contents of an encrypted PDF Description: An issue existed in the handling of links in encrypted PDFs. This issue was addressed by adding a confirmation prompt. CVE-2019-8772: Jens Müller of Ruhr University Bochum, Fabian Ising of FH Münster University of Applied Sciences, Vladislav Mladenov of Ruhr University Bochum, Christian Mainka of Ruhr University Bochum, Sebastian Schinzel of FH Münster University of Applied Sciences, and Jörg Schwenk of Ruhr University Bochum PluginKit Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later) Impact: A local user may be able to check for the existence of arbitrary files Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved restrictions. CVE-2019-8708: an anonymous researcher Entry added October 29, 2019
PluginKit Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later) Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling. CVE-2019-8715: an anonymous researcher Entry added October 29, 2019
Sandbox Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later) Impact: A malicious application may be able to access restricted files Description: An access issue was addressed with additional sandbox restrictions. CVE-2019-8855: Apple Entry added December 18, 2019
SharedFileList Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later) Impact: A malicious application may be able to access recent documents Description: The issue was addressed with improved permissions logic. CVE-2019-8770: Stanislav Zinukhov of Parallels International GmbH sips Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later) Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling. CVE-2019-8701: Simon Huang(@HuangShaomang), Rong Fan(@fanrong1992) and pjf of IceSword Lab of Qihoo 360 UIFoundation Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later) Impact: Parsing a maliciously crafted text file may lead to disclosure of user information Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks. CVE-2019-8761: Renee Trisberg of SpectX Entry updated August 10, 2020, updated July 21, 2021
UIFoundation Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later) Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted text file may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: A buffer overflow was addressed with improved bounds checking. CVE-2019-8745: riusksk of VulWar Corp working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative UIFoundation Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later) Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling. CVE-2019-8831: riusksk of VulWar Corp working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative Entry added November 18, 2019
WebKit Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later) Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may reveal browsing history Description: An issue existed in the drawing of web page elements. The issue was addressed with improved logic. CVE-2019-8769: Piérre Reimertz (@reimertz) WebKit Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later) Impact: A user may be unable to delete browsing history items Description: "Clear History and Website Data" did not clear the history. The issue was addressed with improved data deletion. CVE-2019-8768: Hugo S. Diaz (coldpointblue) Wi-Fi Available for: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013 and later) Impact: A device may be passively tracked by its Wi-Fi MAC address Description: A user privacy issue was addressed by removing the broadcast MAC address. CVE-2019-8854: FuriousMacTeam of the United States Naval Academy and the Mitre Cooperation, Ta-Lun Yen of UCCU Hacker Entry added December 4, 2019, updated December 18, 2019
Additional recognitionAppleRTC We would like to acknowledge Vitaly Cheptsov for their assistance. Entry added October 29, 2019
Audio We would like to acknowledge riusksk of VulWar Corp working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative for their assistance. Entry added October 29, 2019
boringssl We would like to acknowledge Nimrod Aviram of Tel Aviv University, Robert Merget of Ruhr University Bochum, Juraj Somorovsky of Ruhr University Bochum, Thijs Alkemade (@xnyhps) of Computest for their assistance. Entry added October 8, 2019, updated October 29, 2019
curl We would like to acknowledge Joseph Barisa of The School District of Philadelphia for their assistance. Entry added February 3, 2020, updated February 11, 2020
Finder We would like to acknowledge Csaba Fitzl (@theevilbit) for their assistance. Gatekeeper We would like to acknowledge Csaba Fitzl (@theevilbit) for their assistance. Identity Service We would like to acknowledge Yiğit Can YILMAZ (@yilmazcanyigit) for their assistance. Entry added October 29, 2019
Kernel We would like to acknowledge Brandon Azad of Google Project Zero, Vlad Tsyrklevich for their assistance. Entry updated July 28, 2020
Local Authentication We would like to acknowledge Ryan Lopopolo for their assistance. Entry added February 3, 2020
mDNSResponder We would like to acknowledge Gregor Lang of e.solutions GmbH for their assistance. Entry added October 29, 2019
python We would like to acknowledge an anonymous researcher for their assistance. Entry added October 29, 2019
Safari Data Importing We would like to acknowledge Kent Zoya for their assistance. Security We would like to acknowledge Pepijn Dutour Geerling (pepijn.io), an anonymous researcher for their assistance. Entry added November 18, 2019
Simple certificate enrollment protocol (SCEP) We would like to acknowledge an anonymous researcher for their assistance. Siri We would like to acknowledge Yuval Ron, Amichai Shulman and Eli Biham of Technion of Israel Institute of Technology for their assistance. Entry added December 4, 2019, updated December 18, 2019
Telephony We would like to acknowledge Phil Stokes of SentinelOne for their assistance. VPN We would like to acknowledge Royce Gawron of Second Son Consulting, Inc. for their assistance. Entry added October 29, 2019
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