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CVE-2019-8513

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-8513 is a command injection vulnerability affecting Apple macOS Mojave 10.14.3 and earlier, allowing a local user to execute arbitrary shell commands. With a CVSSv3 score of 7.8 (High), this vulnerability requires local access and low privileges but can lead to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not on the KEV catalog or Hot List, a Metasploit module and ExploitDB entry exist for privilege escalation via the 'tmdiagnose' utility, indicating public exploit code availability. Despite this, there is no evidence of active exploitation, and community discussion and media coverage remain minimal.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 10.14.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.92%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: Mac OS X TimeMachine (tmdiagnose) Command Injection Privilege Escalation · Apr 13, 2019
ExploitDB: EDB-47070 · Jul 2, 2019
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0292 is in the 97th percentile among its peer group of 17,061 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

applevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

support.apple.com / HT209600
Vendor Advisory