Vulnerability · Published Dec 8, 2020 · Assigned by apple

CVE-2020-10014

Medium 6.3

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in macOS from Apple. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.1% (higher than 66% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)6.3Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)1.1%top 34.5% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A parsing issue in the handling of directory paths was addressed with improved path validation. This issue is fixed in macOS Big Sur 11.0.1. A malicious application may be able to break out of its sandbox.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Apple	macOS	unspecified – before 11.0

References

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211931 x_refsource_MISC
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT212011 x_refsource_CONFIRM
20201215 APPLE-SA-2020-12-14-4 Additional information for APPLE-SA-2020-11-13-1 macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 mailing-list, x_refsource_FULLDISC
20201215 APPLE-SA-2020-12-14-3 macOS Big Sur 11.1, Security Update 2020-001 Catalina, Security Update 2020-007 Mojave mailing-list, x_refsource_FULLDISC