High severity7.0NVD Advisory· Published Oct 22, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2020-9796

Description

A race condition was addressed with improved state handling. This issue is fixed in macOS Catalina 10.15.5. 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: = 10.15.5
Apple Inc./Mac OS X
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range: <10.15.5

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

support.apple.com/kb/HT211170nvdVendor Advisory

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