CVE-2020-9782: Apple Mac OS X

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.2% 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 Catalina 10.15.2, Security Update 2019-002 Mojave, and Security Update 2019-007 High Sierra. A remote attacker may be able to overwrite existing files.

Affected products

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

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