CVE-2020-10014: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 6.3. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• Apple Mac OS X: from 10.14, before 10.14.6 (fixed in 10.14.6); from 10.15, before 10.15.7 (fixed in 10.15.7); version 10.14.6 only; version 10.15.7 only
• Apple macOS: before 11.0.1 (fixed in 11.0.1)

Published 2020-12-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.