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CVE-2020-9986

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-9986 describes a file access vulnerability in macOS Catalina 10.15.7 and earlier, where a malicious application could read sensitive location information from certain home folder files due to insufficient access restrictions. This is a low-severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 3.3, requiring user interaction (UI:R) for exploitation, and primarily impacting confidentiality (C:L) without affecting integrity or availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, with only one article and one community mention.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 10.15.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

3.3LOW

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.93%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
57.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0093 is in the 66th percentile among its peer group of 577 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

applevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2020/Nov/21
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
support.apple.com / kb/HT211849
Release NotesVendor Advisory