CVE-2019-8737 Denial of service in macOS

What is CVE-2019-8737?

CVE-2019-8737 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Apple Mac Os X, published on 27 Oct 2020. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A denial of service issue was addressed with improved validation. This issue is fixed in macOS Catalina 10.15.1, Security Update 2019-001, and Security Update 2019-006, macOS Catalina 10.15. An attacker in a privileged position may be able to perform a denial of service attack.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-8737?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Apple Mac Os X.

How do I fix CVE-2019-8737?

No fix has been published for CVE-2019-8737 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2019-8737 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-8737 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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