CVE-2020-9866

9.8 criticalEPSS 1.9%

Critical (9.8) in apple mac os x. EPSS 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A buffer overflow was addressed with improved bounds checking. This issue is fixed in macOS Catalina 10.15.6, Security Update 2020-004 Mojave, Security Update 2020-004 High Sierra. A buffer overflow may result in arbitrary code execution.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 80% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-120
Published: 2020-10-27
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

apple:mac_os_x

References

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211289
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211289

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