CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
Percentile
91.7%
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Released July 15, 2020
Audio
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted audio file may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2020-9888: JunDong Xie and Xingwei Lin of Ant-Financial Light-Year Security Lab
CVE-2020-9890: JunDong Xie and Xingwei Lin of Ant-Financial Light-Year Security Lab
CVE-2020-9891: JunDong Xie and Xingwei Lin of Ant-Financial Light-Year Security Lab
Entry updated August 5, 2020
Audio
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted audio file may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2020-9884: Yu Zhou(@yuzhou6666) of 小鸡帮 working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative
CVE-2020-9889: Anonymous working with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative, JunDong Xie and Xingwei Lin of Ant-Financial Light-Year Security Lab
Entry updated August 5, 2020
AVEVideoEncoder
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code.
CVE-2020-9907: 08Tc3wBB working with ZecOps
Entry added July 24, 2020, updated August 31, 2020
Bluetooth
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: A remote attacker may cause an unexpected application termination
Description: A denial of service issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2020-9931: Dennis Heinze (@ttdennis) of TU Darmstadt, Secure Mobile Networking Lab
CoreFoundation
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: A local user may be able to view sensitive user information
Description: An issue existed in the handling of environment variables. This issue was addressed with improved validation.
CVE-2020-9934: Matt Shockley (linkedin.com/in/shocktop)
Entry updated August 5, 2020
CoreGraphics
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: A buffer overflow issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2020-9883: an anonymous researcher, Mickey Jin of Trend Micro
Entry added July 24, 2020, updated December 15, 2020
Crash Reporter
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: A malicious application may be able to break out of its sandbox
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code.
CVE-2020-9865: Zhuo Liang of Qihoo 360 Vulcan Team working with 360 BugCloud
Crash Reporter
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: A local attacker may be able to elevate their privileges
Description: An issue existed within the path validation logic for symlinks. This issue was addressed with improved path sanitization.
CVE-2020-9900: Cees Elzinga, Zhongcheng Li (CK01) from Zero-dayits Team of Legendsec at Qi’anxin Group
Entry added August 5, 2020, updated December 17, 2021
FontParser
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted font file may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2020-9980: Xingwei Lin of Ant Security Light-Year Lab
Entry added September 21, 2020, updated October 19, 2020
GeoServices
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: A malicious application may be able to read sensitive location information
Description: An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2020-9933: Min (Spark) Zheng and Xiaolong Bai of Alibaba Inc.
iAP
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to perform denial of service attack using malformed Bluetooth packets
Description: An input validation issue existed in Bluetooth. This issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2020-9914: Andy Davis of NCC Group
Entry updated July 24, 2020
ImageIO
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch 7th generation
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2020-27933: Xingwei Lin of Ant-Financial Light-Year Security Lab
Entry added March 16, 2021
ImageIO
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: Multiple buffer overflow issues existed in openEXR
Description: Multiple issues in openEXR were addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2020-11758: Xingwei Lin of Ant-Financial Light-Year Security Lab
CVE-2020-11759: Xingwei Lin of Ant-Financial Light-Year Security Lab
CVE-2020-11760: Xingwei Lin of Ant-Financial Light-Year Security Lab
CVE-2020-11761: Xingwei Lin of Ant-Financial Light-Year Security Lab
CVE-2020-11762: Xingwei Lin of Ant-Financial Light-Year Security Lab
CVE-2020-11763: Xingwei Lin of Ant-Financial Light-Year Security Lab
CVE-2020-11764: Xingwei Lin of Ant-Financial Light-Year Security Lab
CVE-2020-11765: Xingwei Lin of Ant-Financial Light-Year Security Lab
Entry added September 8, 2020
ImageIO
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2020-9871: Xingwei Lin of Ant-Financial Light-Year Security Lab
CVE-2020-9872: Xingwei Lin of Ant-Financial Light-Year Security Lab
CVE-2020-9874: Xingwei Lin of Ant-Financial Light-Year Security Lab
CVE-2020-9879: Xingwei Lin of Ant-Financial Light-Year Security Lab
CVE-2020-9936: Mickey Jin of Trend Micro
CVE-2020-9937: Xingwei Lin of Ant-Financial Light-Year Security Lab
Entry updated August 5, 2020
ImageIO
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: A buffer overflow issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2020-9919: Mickey Jin of Trend Micro
Entry added July 24, 2020
ImageIO
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: Opening a maliciously crafted PDF file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2020-9876: Mickey Jin of Trend Micro
Entry added July 24, 2020
ImageIO
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2020-9873: Xingwei Lin of Ant-Financial Light-Year Security Lab
CVE-2020-9938: Xingwei Lin of Ant-Financial Light-Year Security Lab
CVE-2020-9984: an anonymous researcher
Entry added July 24, 2020, updated September 21, 2020
ImageIO
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2020-9877: Xingwei Lin of Ant-Financial Light-Year Security Lab
Entry added August 5, 2020
ImageIO
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: An integer overflow was addressed through improved input validation.
CVE-2020-9875: Mickey Jin of Trend Micro
Entry added August 5, 2020
Kernel
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2020-9923: Proteas
Kernel
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to inject into active connections within a VPN tunnel
Description: A routing issue was addressed with improved restrictions.
CVE-2019-14899: William J. Tolley, Beau Kujath, and Jedidiah R. Crandall
Kernel
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: An attacker that has already achieved kernel code execution may be able to bypass kernel memory mitigations
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2020-9909: Brandon Azad of Google Project Zero
Kernel
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2020-9904: Tielei Wang of Pangu Lab
Entry added July 24, 2020
Kernel
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A memory initialization issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2020-9863: Xinru Chi of Pangu Lab
Entry updated August 5, 2020
Kernel
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges
Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2020-9892: Andy Nguyen of Google
Entry added July 24, 2020
Kernel
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: A malicious application may be able to determine kernel memory layout
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2020-9902: Xinru Chi and Tielei Wang of Pangu Lab
Entry added August 5, 2020
Kernel
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause a denial of service
Description: A buffer overflow was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2020-9905: Raz Mashat (@RazMashat) of ZecOps
Entry added August 5, 2020
libxml2
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch 7th generation
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted XML may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management.
CVE-2020-9926: Found by OSS-Fuzz
Entry added March 16, 2021
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause a denial of service
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2019-19906
Entry added July 24, 2020, updated September 8, 2020
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: A malicious mail server may overwrite arbitrary mail files
Description: A path handling issue was addressed with improved validation.
CVE-2020-9920: YongYue Wang AKA BigChan of Hillstone Networks AF Team
Entry added July 24, 2020
Messages
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: A user that is removed from an iMessage group could rejoin the group
Description: An issue existed in the handling of iMessage tapbacks. The issue was resolved with additional verification.
CVE-2020-9885: an anonymous researcher, Suryansh Mansharamani of WWP High School North (medium.com/@suryanshmansha)
Model I/O
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted USD file may lead to unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: A buffer overflow issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2020-9878: Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos, Holger Fuhrmannek of Deutsche Telekom Security
CVE-2020-9881: Holger Fuhrmannek of Deutsche Telekom Security
CVE-2020-9882: Holger Fuhrmannek of Deutsche Telekom Security
CVE-2020-9940: Holger Fuhrmannek of Deutsche Telekom Security
CVE-2020-9985: Holger Fuhrmannek of Deutsche Telekom Security
Entry updated September 21, 2020
Model I/O
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted USD file may lead to unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: A buffer overflow was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2020-9880: Holger Fuhrmannek of Deutsche Telekom Security
Entry added September 21, 2020
Safari Login AutoFill
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: A malicious attacker may cause Safari to suggest a password for the wrong domain
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved restrictions.
CVE-2020-9903: Nikhil Mittal (@c0d3G33k) of Payatu Labs (payatu.com)
Safari Reader
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: An issue in Safari Reader mode may allow a remote attacker to bypass the Same Origin Policy
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved restrictions.
CVE-2020-9911: Nikhil Mittal (@c0d3G33k) of Payatu Labs (payatu.com)
Security
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: An attacker may have been able to impersonate a trusted website using shared key material for an administrator added certificate
Description: A certificate validation issue existed when processing administrator added certificates. This issue was addressed with improved certificate validation.
CVE-2020-9868: Brian Wolff of Asana
Entry added July 24, 2020
sysdiagnose
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: A local attacker may be able to elevate their privileges
Description: An issue existed within the path validation logic for symlinks. This issue was addressed with improved path sanitization.
CVE-2020-9901: Tim Michaud (@TimGMichaud) of Leviathan, Zhongcheng Li (CK01) from Zero-dayits Team of Legendsec at Qi’anxin Group
Entry added August 5, 2020, updated August 31, 2020
WebDAV
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: A sandboxed process may be able to circumvent sandbox restrictions
Description: This issue was addressed with improved entitlements.
CVE-2020-9898: Sreejith Krishnan R (@skr0x1C0)
Entry added September 8, 2020
WebKit
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2020-9894: 0011 working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative
WebKit
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may prevent Content Security Policy from being enforced
Description: An access issue existed in Content Security Policy. This issue was addressed with improved access restrictions.
CVE-2020-9915: Ayoub AIT ELMOKHTAR of Noon
Entry updated July 24, 2020
WebKit
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management.
CVE-2020-9893: 0011 working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative
CVE-2020-9895: Wen Xu of SSLab, Georgia Tech
WebKit
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to universal cross site scripting
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2020-9925: an anonymous researcher
WebKit
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: A malicious attacker with arbitrary read and write capability may be able to bypass Pointer Authentication
Description: Multiple issues were addressed with improved logic.
CVE-2020-9910: Samuel Groß of Google Project Zero
WebKit Page Loading
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: A malicious attacker may be able to conceal the destination of a URL
Description: A URL Unicode encoding issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2020-9916: Rakesh Mane (@RakeshMane10)
WebKit Web Inspector
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: Copying a URL from Web Inspector may lead to command injection
Description: A command injection issue existed in Web Inspector. This issue was addressed with improved escaping.
CVE-2020-9862: Ophir Lojkine (@lovasoa)
WebRTC
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to cause heap corruption via a crafted SCTP stream
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2020-6514: natashenka of Google Project Zero
Entry added September 21, 2020
Wi-Fi
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2020-9918: Jianjun Dai of 360 Alpha Lab working with 360 BugCloud (bugcloud.360.cn)
Wi-Fi
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2020-9906: Ian Beer of Google Project Zero
Entry added July 24, 2020
Wi-Fi
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause a denial of service
Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2020-9917: Pradeep Deokate of Harman, Stefan Böhrer at Daimler AG, proofnet.de
Entry updated July 24, 2020
Bluetooth
We would like to acknowledge Andy Davis of NCC Group for their assistance.
CoreFoundation
We would like to acknowledge Bobby Pelletier for their assistance.
Entry added September 8, 2020
ImageIO
We would like to acknowledge Xingwei Lin of Ant-Financial Light-Year Security Lab for their assistance.
Entry added September 21, 2020
Kernel
We would like to acknowledge Brandon Azad of Google Project Zero for their assistance.
USB Audio
We would like to acknowledge Andy Davis of NCC Group for their assistance.
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Published Date: November 03, 2023
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
Percentile
91.7%