CVE-2020-9839 — Race Condition in Apple Macos

CWE-362 — Race Condition4 documents4 sources
Severity
7.0HIGHNVD
EPSS
35.9%
top 2.91%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
7
Apple IOSApple MacosApple Tvos+4 more
Timeline
PublishedJun 9
Latest updateMay 24

Description

A race condition was addressed with improved state handling. This issue is fixed in iOS 13.5 and iPadOS 13.5, macOS Catalina 10.15.5, tvOS 13.4.5, watchOS 6.2.5. An application may be able to gain elevated privileges.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.0 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages9 packages

▶CVEListV5apple/tvosunspecified — tvOS 13.4.5
▶NVDapple/tvos< 13.4.5
▶CVEListV5apple/macosunspecified — macOS Catalina 10.15.5
▶NVDapple/ipados< 13.5
▶CVEListV5apple/watchosunspecified — watchOS 6.2.5

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-38pp-34cq-8xpr: A race condition was addressed with improved state handling↗2022-05-24
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CVEList
CVE-2020-9839: A race condition was addressed with improved state handling↗2020-06-09
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💥Exploits & PoCs

1
Metasploit
macOS cfprefsd Arbitrary File Write Local Privilege Escalation↗
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