Vulnerability in Apple Mac OS X

CVE-2020-29622

A race condition was addressed with additional validation. This issue is fixed in Security Update 2021-005 Catalina. Mounting a maliciously crafted NFS network share may lead to arbitrary code execution with system privileges.

Vulnerability class: Race Condition

Published · last modified .

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.011 (64.1th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 64th percentile — 64.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2020-29622: held from 0.011 to 0.011.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.011 · newest: 0.011 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-29622?
CVE-2020-29622 is a high-severity vulnerability in Apple Mac OS X, classified under Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (Race Condition). CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2021-10-19.
How severe is CVE-2020-29622?
High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2020-29622 known to be exploited?
2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.