CVE-2019-8847: Apple Mac OS X

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in macOS Catalina 10.15.2, Security Update 2019-002 Mojave, and Security Update 2019-007 High Sierra. An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: before 10.15.2 (fixed in 10.15.2)

Published 2020-10-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.