Apple macOS: A user may be unexpectedly logged in to another user’s account
Priority LOW 21Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · Low · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
A logic issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in macOS Catalina 10.15.6. A user may be unexpectedly logged in to another user’s account.
Why it matters now
EPSS 0.00719 54th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed macOS (Apple): macOS Catalina 10.15.6
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA macOS (Apple) Fixed in macOS Catalina 10.15.6
Fixed in the same release
Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.
- Release ·
Apple macOS macOS Catalina 10.15.6
43 records Highest priority Priority MEDIUM 5 MEDIUM, 38 LOW
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2020-07979 Improper input validation in Apple iOSPriority MEDIUM 47
- TI-2020-07971 Apple iOS: A sandboxed process may be able to circumvent sandbox restrictionsPriority MEDIUM 45
- TI-2020-07993 Path traversal in Apple iOSPriority MEDIUM 43
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2020-9935
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-32j6-838m-7hxw
References
Advisory 1
More Apple Mac Os X vulnerabilities
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- TI-2021-01572 Apple iOS and iPadOS: A remote attacker may be able to cause arbitrary code execution KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2014-05975 GNU Bash through 4.3 bash43-025 processes trailing strings after certain malformed… KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2014-05157 GNU Bash through 4.3 processes trailing strings after function definitions in the values… KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2012-01607 sapi/cgi/cgi_main.c in PHP before 5.3.12 and 5.4.x before 5.4.2, when configured as a CGI… KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2022-02117 Out-of-bounds write in Google Chrome KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
Sources
- CVE-2020-9935 · CVE Program
- CVE-2020-9935 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-32j6-838m-7hxw · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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