5.1
CVSSv2

CVE-2020-9839

Published: 09/06/2020 Updated: 09/01/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5.1 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 4.9
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1
VMScore: 454
Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

A race condition was addressed with improved state handling. This issue is fixed in iOS 13.5 and iPadOS 13.5, macOS Catalina 10.15.5, tvOS 13.4.5, watchOS 6.2.5. An application may be able to gain elevated privileges.

Vulnerability Trend

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apple mac os x

apple iphone os

apple watchos

apple tvos

apple ipados

Exploits

This Metasploit module exploits an arbitrary file write in cfprefsd on macOS versions 10154 and below in order to run a payload as root The CFPreferencesSetAppValue function, which is reachable from most unsandboxed processes, can be exploited with a race condition in order to overwrite an arbitrary file as root By overwriting /etc/pamd/login ...

Mailing Lists

<!--X-Body-Begin--> <!--X-User-Header--> Full Disclosure mailing list archives <!--X-User-Header-End--> <!--X-TopPNI--> By Date By Thread </form> <!--X-TopPNI-End--> <!--X-MsgBody--> <!--X-Subject-Header-Begin--> APPLE-SA-2020-05-26-3 macOS Catalina 10155, Security Update 2020-003 Mojave, Security Update 2020-003 High Sierra <! ...
<!--X-Body-Begin--> <!--X-User-Header--> Full Disclosure mailing list archives <!--X-User-Header-End--> <!--X-TopPNI--> By Date By Thread </form> <!--X-TopPNI-End--> <!--X-MsgBody--> <!--X-Subject-Header-Begin--> APPLE-SA-2020-05-26-4 tvOS 1345 <!--X-Subject-Header-End--> <!--X-Head-of-Message--> From: Apple Product Security ...