Description
A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in macOS Catalina 10.15. An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apple | macOS | unspecified – < macOS Catalina 10.15 | macOS Catalina 10.15 |
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
GitHub 2 repositories
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A2nkF/macOS-Kernel-Exploit ★ 293 · Sep 17, 2019
macOS Kernel Exploit for CVE-2019-8781.
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TrungNguyen1909/CVE-2019-8781-macOS ★ 2 · Oct 27, 2019
Exploit POC for the bug CVE-2019-8781, found by @LinusHenze
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.