CVE-2019-8770: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The issue was addressed with improved permissions logic. This issue is fixed in macOS Catalina 10.15. A malicious application may be able to access recent documents.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: before 10.15 (fixed in 10.15)

Published 2019-12-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.