CVE-2019-8526
CVE-2019-8526
In short
A program in macOS Mojave could crash or be manipulated to run with higher privileges due to faulty memory management. This could allow an app to gain unauthorized administrative access.
Technical detail
Use-after-free vulnerability in memory management allowing privilege escalation. An attacker needs local execution context within a vulnerable application; exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution with elevated privileges.
Summary generated and translated by AI from the official description.
A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management. This issue is fixed in macOS Mojave 10.14.4. An application may be able to gain elevated privileges.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Apple · macOSWant to know if your infrastructure is exposed to this?
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