Cyber Resilience

CVE-2020-9978

Medium

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 4.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0016 36.3th percentile
Risk Priority 9 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2020-9978 is a medium-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Apple Mac Os X. Its CVSS base score is 4.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 36.3th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

This issue was addressed with improved setting propagation. 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. An attacker…

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in a privileged network position may be able to unexpectedly alter application state.

CWE(s)
NVD-CWE-noinfo

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 — 11.1.0
apple
watchos
≤ 7.0

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References