High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Dec 18, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2019-8772

Description

An issue existed in the handling of links in encrypted PDFs. This issue was addressed by adding a confirmation prompt. This issue is fixed in macOS Catalina 10.15. An attacker may be able to exfiltrate the contents of an encrypted PDF.

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Affected products

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

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

support.apple.com/HT210634nvdRelease NotesVendor Advisory
support.apple.com/kb/HT210722nvdRelease NotesVendor Advisory

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