ID

VAR-202012-0753

CVE

CVE-2020-27903

TITLE

macOS  Vulnerability to obtain elevated privileges in

DESCRIPTION

This issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code. This issue is fixed in macOS Big Sur 11.0.1. An application may be able to gain elevated privileges. The Apple App Store is an application store for downloading software from Apple (Apple). A security flaw exists in the Apple App Store that could allow an app to gain elevated privileges. The following products and versions are affected: Mac Pro (2013 and later), MacBook Air (2013 and later), MacBook Pro (Late 2013 and later), Mac mini (2014 and later), iMac (2014 and later), MacBook (2015 and later), iMac Pro (all models). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 APPLE-SA-2020-12-14-3 macOS Big Sur 11.1, Security Update 2020-001 Catalina, Security Update 2020-007 Mojave macOS Big Sur 11.1, Security Update 2020-001 Catalina, Security Update 2020-007 Mojave addresses the following issues. Information about the security content is also available at https://support.apple.com/HT212011. AMD Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Impact: A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved input validation. CVE-2020-27914: Yu Wang of Didi Research America CVE-2020-27915: Yu Wang of Didi Research America App Store Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Impact: An application may be able to gain elevated privileges Description: This issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code. CVE-2020-27903: Zhipeng Huo (@R3dF09) of Tencent Security Xuanwu Lab AppleGraphicsControl Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.7, macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges Description: A validation issue was addressed with improved logic. CVE-2020-27941: shrek_wzw AppleMobileFileIntegrity Available for: macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 Impact: A malicious application may be able to bypass Privacy preferences Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks. CVE-2020-29621: Wojciech Reguła (@_r3ggi) of SecuRing Audio Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted audio file may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation. CVE-2020-27910: JunDong Xie and XingWei Lin of Ant Security Light- Year Lab Audio Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Impact: A malicious application may be able to read restricted memory Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking. CVE-2020-9943: JunDong Xie of Ant Security Light-Year Lab Audio Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Impact: An application may be able to read restricted memory Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking. CVE-2020-9944: JunDong Xie of Ant Security Light-Year Lab Audio Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted audio file may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: An out-of-bounds write was addressed with improved input validation. CVE-2020-27916: JunDong Xie of Ant Security Light-Year Lab Bluetooth Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause unexpected application termination or heap corruption Description: Multiple integer overflows were addressed with improved input validation. CVE-2020-27906: Zuozhi Fan (@pattern_F_) of Ant Group Tianqiong Security Lab CoreAudio Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.7, macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted audio file may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking. CVE-2020-27948: JunDong Xie of Ant Security Light-Year Lab CoreAudio Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted audio file may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation. CVE-2020-9960: JunDong Xie and XingWei Lin of Ant Security Light-Year Lab CVE-2020-27908: JunDong Xie and XingWei Lin of Ant Security Light- Year Lab CoreAudio Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted audio file may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: An out-of-bounds write was addressed with improved input validation. CVE-2020-10017: Francis working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative, JunDong Xie of Ant Security Light-Year Lab CoreText Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted font file may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management. CVE-2020-27922: Mickey Jin of Trend Micro FontParser Available for: macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted font may result in the disclosure of process memory Description: An information disclosure issue was addressed with improved state management. CVE-2020-27946: Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Project Zero FontParser Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: A buffer overflow was addressed with improved size validation. CVE-2020-9962: Yiğit Can YILMAZ (@yilmazcanyigit) FontParser Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted font file may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: An out-of-bounds write was addressed with improved input validation. CVE-2020-27952: an anonymous researcher, Mickey Jin and Junzhi Lu of Trend Micro FontParser Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted font file may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation. CVE-2020-9956: Mickey Jin and Junzhi Lu of Trend Micro Mobile Security Research Team working with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative FontParser Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.7, macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted font file may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: A memory corruption issue existed in the processing of font files. CVE-2020-27931: Apple CVE-2020-27943: Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Project Zero CVE-2020-27944: Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Project Zero Foundation Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Impact: A local user may be able to read arbitrary files Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management. CVE-2020-10002: James Hutchins Graphics Drivers Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.7, macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved input validation. CVE-2020-27947: ABC Research s.r.o. working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative Graphics Drivers Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.7, macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 Impact: A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking. CVE-2020-29612: ABC Research s.r.o. working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative HomeKit Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Impact: An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to unexpectedly alter application state Description: This issue was addressed with improved setting propagation. CVE-2020-9978: Luyi Xing, Dongfang Zhao, and Xiaofeng Wang of Indiana University Bloomington, Yan Jia of Xidian University and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Bin Yuan of HuaZhong University of Science and Technology Image Processing Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: An out-of-bounds write was addressed with improved input validation. CVE-2020-27919: Hou JingYi (@hjy79425575) of Qihoo 360 CERT, Xingwei Lin of Ant Security Light-Year Lab ImageIO Available for: macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved input validation. CVE-2020-29616: zhouat working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative ImageIO Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.7, macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation. CVE-2020-27924: Lei Sun CVE-2020-29618: XingWei Lin of Ant Security Light-Year Lab ImageIO Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.7, macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking. CVE-2020-29611: Ivan Fratric of Google Project Zero ImageIO Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.7, macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to heap corruption Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation. CVE-2020-29617: XingWei Lin of Ant Security Light-Year Lab CVE-2020-29619: XingWei Lin of Ant Security Light-Year Lab ImageIO Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: An out-of-bounds write was addressed with improved input validation. CVE-2020-27912: Xingwei Lin of Ant Security Light-Year Lab CVE-2020-27923: Lei Sun Intel Graphics Driver Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking. CVE-2020-10015: ABC Research s.r.o. working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative CVE-2020-27897: Xiaolong Bai and Min (Spark) Zheng of Alibaba Inc. and Luyi Xing of Indiana University Bloomington Intel Graphics Driver Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling. CVE-2020-27907: ABC Research s.r.o. working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative Kernel Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Impact: A malicious application may be able to determine kernel memory layout Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management. CVE-2020-9974: Tommy Muir (@Muirey03) Kernel Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management. CVE-2020-10016: Alex Helie Kernel Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed with improved input validation. CVE-2020-9967: Alex Plaskett (@alexjplaskett) Kernel Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management. CVE-2020-9975: Tielei Wang of Pangu Lab Kernel Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges Description: A race condition was addressed with improved state handling. CVE-2020-27921: Linus Henze (pinauten.de) Kernel Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.7, macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 Impact: A malicious application may cause unexpected changes in memory belonging to processes traced by DTrace Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks to prevent unauthorized actions. CVE-2020-27949: Steffen Klee (@_kleest) of TU Darmstadt, Secure Mobile Networking Lab Kernel Available for: macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 Impact: A malicious application may be able to elevate privileges Description: This issue was addressed with improved entitlements. CVE-2020-29620: Csaba Fitzl (@theevilbit) of Offensive Security libxml2 Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution Description: An integer overflow was addressed through improved input validation. CVE-2020-27911: found by OSS-Fuzz libxml2 Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to code execution Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management. CVE-2020-27920: found by OSS-Fuzz libxml2 Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management. CVE-2020-27926: found by OSS-Fuzz libxpc Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Impact: A malicious application may be able to break out of its sandbox Description: A parsing issue in the handling of directory paths was addressed with improved path validation. CVE-2020-10014: Zhipeng Huo (@R3dF09) of Tencent Security Xuanwu Lab Logging Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Impact: A local attacker may be able to elevate their privileges Description: A path handling issue was addressed with improved validation. CVE-2020-10010: Tommy Muir (@Muirey03) Model I/O Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted USD file may lead to unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation. CVE-2020-13524: Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos Model I/O Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Impact: Opening a maliciously crafted file may lead to unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management. CVE-2020-10004: Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos NSRemoteView Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Impact: A sandboxed process may be able to circumvent sandbox restrictions Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved restrictions. CVE-2020-27901: Thijs Alkemade of Computest Research Division Power Management Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Impact: A malicious application may be able to determine kernel memory layout Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management. CVE-2020-10007: singi@theori working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative Quick Look Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted document may lead to a cross site scripting attack Description: An access issue was addressed with improved access restrictions. CVE-2020-10012: Heige of KnownSec 404 Team (knownsec.com) and Bo Qu of Palo Alto Networks (paloaltonetworks.com) Ruby Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Impact: A remote attacker may be able to modify the file system Description: A path handling issue was addressed with improved validation. CVE-2020-27896: an anonymous researcher System Preferences Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Impact: A sandboxed process may be able to circumvent sandbox restrictions Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management. CVE-2020-10009: Thijs Alkemade of Computest Research Division WebRTC Available for: macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management. CVE-2020-15969: an anonymous researcher Wi-Fi Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Impact: An attacker may be able to bypass Managed Frame Protection Description: A denial of service issue was addressed with improved state handling. CVE-2020-27898: Stephan Marais of University of Johannesburg Installation note: macOS Big Sur 11.1, Security Update 2020-001 Catalina, Security Update 2020-007 Mojave may be obtained from the Mac App Store or Apple's Software Downloads web site: https://support.apple.com/downloads/ Information will also be posted to the Apple Security Updates web site: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT201222 This message is signed with Apple's Product Security PGP key, and details are available at: https://www.apple.com/support/security/pgp/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEbURczHs1TP07VIfuZcsbuWJ6jjAFAl/YBj8ACgkQZcsbuWJ6 jjCVjw//QGrhMvU+nyuS1UwWs7rcqDJDNh0Zb7yUJali2Bdc9/l++i2pLFbmAwes 7AYCag+T3h3aP7YJAN13zb8KBmUcmnWkWupfx8kEGqHxSXnQTXvaEI59RyCobOCj OVPtboPMH1d94+6dABMp9kiLAHoZezm3hdF8ShT2Hqgq2TB16wZsa/EvhJVSaduA 7RttG6EHBTin6UU3M/+vcfJWqkg4O0YuZpQaconDa5Pd81jpUMeduzfRvS5i+PVS cehtHPWjCN15+sQ29q11yhP3v+sYh0DJEl2LWaBnDo2TlC1gHx70H5ZsAFLHChcd rXkl1tm6GV3UWVhFq0jQc1DP+IwbuL6jHI/wIjYx7itk9XECppyhhiuImOaLiIUH CBgAjwVHY1GUdTH97iPEQFF61v3sjpRLleLMZW7+9ZTt4pEDwMVHk9vKgVK5BUa6 lrKWtBHL3AtaXtxC9y8XGe3IYEBLAszHMUJfF1BR+D/niDRlztvoj72/3PPwtk2t tuUE9RGzpSXCQ1CX6vW7zS2ddVmQfJqcPX721k4OVpFNlMXkjZkm2Q/xwr5qq99v Up9BA+ITksthGYfGAY5bBV1LsjK1NtdNHQGpZe4l9bu4ONgUvmL8iBb/LnS6wKB1 HGcdHEmXvbx+Akl/fvTdG8RSvyoYuFJHkuYv0DMWiri8yN1q+C4= =osnP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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