CVE-2019-8662This issue was addressed with improved checks. This issue is fixed in iOS 12.4, macOS Mojave 10.14.6, tvOS 12.4, watchOS 5.3. An attacker…
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 9.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 4.4% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
This issue was addressed with improved checks. This issue is fixed in iOS 12.4, macOS Mojave 10.14.6, tvOS 12.4, watchOS 5.3. An attacker may be able to trigger a use-after-free in an application deserializing an untrusted NSDictionary.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list 2 Exploit-DB entries for it.
Show the exploits2
Exploit-DB2 entries
- iMessage - Decoding NSSharedKeyDictionary can read ObjC Object at Attacker Controlled Address (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 47608dos, multiplepublished 11 Nov 2019Verified
- macOS / iOS NSKeyedUnarchiver - Use-After-Free of ObjC Objects when Unarchiving OITSUIntDictionary Instances (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 47189dos, multiplepublished 30 Jul 2019Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By apple
- 10 months later
· 10 months later
Published
- 5 years later
· 5 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 9.8% · top 4.4% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
References
References4
- https://support.apple.com/HT210353 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/HT210346 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/HT210348 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/HT210351 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2019-18052 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2019-8662)Record last updated .