CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-8772
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-12-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Description
An issue existed in the handling of links in encrypted PDFs. This issue was addressed by adding a confirmation prompt. This issue is fixed in macOS Catalina 10.15. An attacker may be able to exfiltrate the contents of an encrypted PDF.
Affected configurations
• apple mac os x (< 10.15)
References
- https://support.apple.com/HT210634 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210722 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/HT210634 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210722 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory