CVE-2020-9851: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An access issue was addressed with improved access restrictions. This issue is fixed in macOS Catalina 10.15.5. A malicious application may be able to modify protected parts of the file system.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: before 10.15.5 (fixed in 10.15.5)

Published 2020-06-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.