CVE-2019-8716 — A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling

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CRITICAL

A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling

Published Oct 27, 2020

9.8

CRITICAL

CVSS 3.1

EPSS 2.14%

Description

A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in macOS Catalina 10.15.1, Security Update 2019-001, and Security Update 2019-006. An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges.

Affected products

Vendor Apple Product macOS Default
n/a
- Version
  unspecified
  Status
  affected
  Constraints
  <10.15

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	<10.15

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

2.14% 0.02141

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.02141

Score over time

2021–2026

EPSS v1
EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v1
EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (15 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	2.14% (0.02141)	81.37th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	2.05% (0.02051)	78.68th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 29, 2025	1.51% (0.01506)	69.38th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Jul 20, 2024	0.30% (0.00304)	70.02th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.30% (0.00305)	68.92th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Oct 3, 2023	0.30% (0.00305)	66.17th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jul 13, 2023	0.29% (0.00288)	64.66th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jun 3, 2023	0.27% (0.00270)	63.06th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.26% (0.00261)	62.00th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.09% (0.01086)	53.47th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 17, 2022	1.09% (0.01086)	51.85th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.09% (0.01086)	49.83th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.09% (0.01086)	28.42th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 3, 2022	0.09% (0.00088)	0.18th	v1
Apr 14, 2021	0.09% (0.00088)	0.00th	v1

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-787

Out-of-bounds Write

References (1)

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210722
x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210722		x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner apple

Published Oct 27, 2020

Updated Aug 4, 2024

Reserved Feb 18, 2019

Link CVE-2019-8716

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2019-8716

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2019-8716