CVE-2019-8661 - A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management

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CRITICAL

A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management

Published Dec 18, 2019

9.8

CRITICAL

CVSS 3.1

EPSS 10.28%

Description

A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management. This issue is fixed in macOS Mojave 10.14.6. A remote attacker may be able to cause arbitrary code execution.

Affected products

Vendor Apple Product macOS Default
n/a
- Version
  unspecified
  Status
  affected
  Constraints
  <macOS Mojave 10.14.6

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor

Product

Default status

Versions

Apple

macOS

n/a

Version	Status	Constraints
unspecified	affected	<macOS Mojave 10.14.6

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-416

Use After Free

References (1)

https://support.apple.com/HT210348
x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
https://support.apple.com/HT210348		x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner apple

Published Dec 18, 2019

Updated Aug 4, 2024

Reserved Feb 18, 2019

Link CVE-2019-8661

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2019-8661

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2019-8661