cvelistv5 - cve-2019-8772

cve-2019-8772

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2019-12-18 17:33

Modified

2024-08-04 21:31

Severity ?

Summary

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.

References

▼	URL	Tags
	product-security@apple.com	https://support.apple.com/HT210634	Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
	product-security@apple.com	https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210722	Release Notes, Vendor Advisory

Impacted products

▼	Vendor	Product
	Apple	macOS

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