vulnerability

OS X update for zsh (CVE-2019-20044)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Feb 24, 2020
Added
May 27, 2020
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

In Zsh before 5.8, attackers able to execute commands can regain privileges dropped by the --no-PRIVILEGED option. Zsh fails to overwrite the saved uid, so the original privileges can be restored by executing MODULE_PATH=/dir/with/module zmodload with a module that calls setuid().

Solutions

apple-osx-security-update-2020-003-high-sierraapple-osx-security-update-2020-003-mojaveapple-osx-upgrade-10_15_5
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