Cyber Resilience

CVE-2020-9962

High

Published: 02 April 2021

Published
02 April 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0077 73.9th percentile
Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2020-9962 is a high-severity Classic Buffer Overflow (CWE-120) vulnerability in Apple Mac Os X. Its CVSS base score is 7.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 26.1% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A buffer overflow was addressed with improved size validation. This issue is fixed in macOS Big Sur 11.0.1, tvOS 14.0, macOS Big Sur 11.1, Security Update 2020-001 Catalina, Security Update 2020-007 Mojave, watchOS 7.0, iOS 14.0 and iPadOS 14.0. Processing…

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a maliciously crafted image may lead to arbitrary code execution.

CWE(s)
CWE-120

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

apple
ipados
≤ 14.0
apple
iphone os
≤ 14.0
apple
mac os x
10.14.6, 10.15.7 · 10.14 — 10.14.6 · 10.15 — 10.15.7
apple
macos
11.0 — 11.0.1
apple
tvos
≤ 14.0
apple
watchos
≤ 7.0

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

SC-27 Platform-independent Applications
addresses: CWE-120

Platform-independent managed code eliminates the need for unchecked native buffer copies that are the root cause of classic buffer overflows.

References