Tag: zero-day

Apple fixes zero-day Mac bug with Catalina update

Apple supports two predecessor systems alongside the current version of macOS, and an important security update for macOS 10.14 (Mojave) and 10.15 (Catalina) was rolled out at the same time as yesterday’s Big Sur 11.2 update. The update in question is called Security Update 2021-001 for …

SandboxEscaper is back with a new Zero-Day Exploit

SandboxEscaper is back with a new Privilege Escalation Exploit. On this occasion, she defeated a patch which Microsoft released in April for CVE-2019-0841, and as usual, released the exploit with proof-of-concept exploit code. Thankfully the exploit requires code running on a local machine, vs a remote …