Medium severity4.4NVD Advisory· Published Feb 27, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2020-3835

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 Catalina 10.15.3. A malicious application may be able to access restricted files.

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Affected products

Apple Inc./Mac OS X
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range: <10.15.3
Apple Inc./macOS Catalinallm-fuzzy
Range: = 10.15.3
Apple Inc./macOSv5
Range: unspecified

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

support.apple.com/HT210919nvdRelease NotesVendor Advisory

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