CVE-2020-9796 Race condition in macOS

What is CVE-2020-9796?

CVE-2020-9796 is a high-severity vulnerability in Apple Mac Os X, published on 22 Oct 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A race condition was addressed with improved state handling. This issue is fixed in macOS Catalina 10.15.5. An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.

Weakness: CWE-362

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-9796?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Apple Mac Os X.

How do I fix CVE-2020-9796?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-9796 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2020-9796 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-9796 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-q3g2-22xw-gvf8.