High severity7.0NVD Advisory· Published Dec 18, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2019-8606

Description

A validation issue existed in the handling of symlinks. This issue was addressed with improved validation of symlinks. This issue is fixed in macOS Mojave 10.14.5. A local user may be able to load unsigned kernel extensions.

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Affected products

Apple Inc./Mac OS X
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range: <10.14.5
Apple Inc./macOS Mojavellm-fuzzy
Range: = 10.14.5
Apple Inc./macOSv5
Range: unspecified

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References

support.apple.com/HT210119nvdVendor Advisory

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