CVE-2020-9990 - A race condition was addressed with additional validation

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HIGH

A race condition was addressed with additional validation

Published Oct 22, 2020

7.8

HIGH

CVSS 3.1

EPSS 0.25%

Description

A race condition was addressed with additional validation. This issue is fixed in macOS Catalina 10.15.6. A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.

Affected products

Vendor Apple Product macOS Default
n/a
- Version
  unspecified
  Status
  affected
  Constraints
  <macOS Catalina 10.15.6

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 Catalina 10.15.6

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-362

Race Condition

References (1)

https://support.apple.com/kb/HT211289
x_refsource_MISCRelease NotesVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT211289		x_refsource_MISCRelease NotesVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner apple

Published Oct 22, 2020

Updated Aug 4, 2024

Reserved Mar 2, 2020

Link CVE-2020-9990

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2020-9990

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2020-9990