High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Dec 18, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2019-8748

Description

A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in macOS Catalina 10.15. An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.

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Affected products

Apple Inc./macOSv5
Range: unspecified
Apple Inc./macOS Catalinallm-fuzzy
Range: = 10.15
Apple Inc./Mac OS X
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range: <10.15

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

support.apple.com/HT210634nvdVendor Advisory
support.apple.com/kb/HT210722nvd

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