CVE-2020-29620: Apple Mac OS X

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

This issue was addressed with improved entitlements. This issue is fixed in macOS Big Sur 11.1, Security Update 2020-001 Catalina, Security Update 2020-007 Mojave. A malicious application may be able to elevate privileges.

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: from 11.0, before 11.1.0 (fixed in 11.1.0)

Published 2021-04-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.