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CVE-2020-3898

Published: 21 April 2020

A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved validation. This issue is fixed in macOS Catalina 10.15.4. An application may be able to gain elevated privileges.

Notes

AuthorNote
sbeattie
as of 2020-04-20, does not appear to have landed upstream

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
cups
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic
Released (2.2.7-1ubuntu2.8)
eoan
Released (2.2.12-2ubuntu1.1)
focal
Released (2.3.1-9ubuntu1.1)
upstream Needs triage

xenial
Released (2.1.3-4ubuntu0.11)
trusty Does not exist

Patches:
vendor: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/cups/blob/master/f/cups-ppdopen-heap-overflow.patch

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.8
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H