High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Oct 22, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2020-3915

Description

A path handling issue was addressed with improved validation. This issue is fixed in macOS Catalina 10.15.4. A malicious application may be able to overwrite arbitrary files.

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Affected products

Apple Inc./Mac OS X
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range: <10.15.4
Apple Inc./macOS Catalinallm-fuzzy
Range: before 10.15.4
Apple Inc./macOSv5
Range: unspecified

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

support.apple.com/kb/HT211100nvdVendor Advisory

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