CVE-2019-8555 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Apple Macos

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferCWE-367 — Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition5 documents5 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
GHSA6.3
EPSS
0.4%
top 39.42%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
4
Apple MacosApple MAC OS XK8s.io Kubernetes+1 more
Timeline
PublishedDec 18
Latest updateMay 24

Description

A buffer overflow was addressed with improved size validation. This issue is fixed in macOS Mojave 10.14.4. A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages4 packages

▶CVEListV5apple/macosunspecified — macOS Mojave 10.14.4
▶NVDapple/mac_os_x< 10.4.4
▶Gok8s.io/kubernetes1.21.0 — 1.21.1+3

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-qc53-pf6m-hqxj: A buffer overflow was addressed with improved size validation↗2022-05-24
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GHSA
Potential proxy IP restriction bypass in Kubernetes↗2022-02-02
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
kubernetes: Bypass of Kubernetes API Server proxy TOCTOU↗2021-05-04
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Apple
CVE-2019-8555: macOS Mojave 10.14.4, Security Update 2019-002 High Sierra, Security Update 2019-002 Sierra↗2019-03-25
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