7.8 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
9.3 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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Released September 16, 2020
Audio
Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later
Impact: A malicious application may be able to read restricted memory
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2020-9943: JunDong Xie of Ant Group Light-Year Security Lab
Entry added November 12, 2020
Audio
Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later
Impact: An application may be able to read restricted memory
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2020-9944: JunDong Xie of Ant Group Light-Year Security Lab
Entry added November 12, 2020
CoreAudio
Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later
Impact: Playing a malicious audio file may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: A buffer overflow issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2020-9954: Francis working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative, JunDong Xie of Ant Group Light-Year Security Lab
Entry added November 12, 2020
CoreCapture
Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management.
CVE-2020-9949: Proteas
Entry added November 12, 2020
CoreText
Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted text file may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2020-9999: Apple
Entry added December 15, 2020
Disk Images
Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2020-9965: Proteas
CVE-2020-9966: Proteas
Entry added November 12, 2020
ImageIO
Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later
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-2020-9961: Xingwei Lin of Ant Security Light-Year Lab
Entry added November 12, 2020
ImageIO
Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later
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 November 12, 2020
ImageIO
Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later
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-2020-9955: Mickey Jin of Trend Micro, Xingwei Lin of Ant Security Light-Year Lab
Entry added December 15, 2020
Keyboard
Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later
Impact: A malicious application may be able to leak sensitive user information
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2020-9976: Rias A. Sherzad of JAIDE GmbH in Hamburg, Germany
libxml2
Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted file may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management.
CVE-2020-9981: found by OSS-Fuzz
Entry added November 12, 2020
libxpc
Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later
Impact: A malicious application may be able to elevate privileges
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved validation.
CVE-2020-9971: Zhipeng Huo (@R3dF09) of Tencent Security Xuanwu Lab
Entry added December 15, 2020
Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to unexpectedly alter application state
Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2020-9941: Fabian Ising of FH Münster University of Applied Sciences and Damian Poddebniak of FH Münster University of Applied Sciences
Entry added November 12, 2020
Messages
Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later
Impact: A local user may be able to discover a user’s deleted messages
Description: The issue was addressed with improved deletion.
CVE-2020-9989: von Brunn Media
Entry added November 12, 2020
Phone
Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later
Impact: The screen lock may not engage after the specified time period
Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2020-9946: Daniel Larsson of iolight AB
Safari
Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later
Impact: Visiting a malicious website may lead to address bar spoofing
Description: The issue was addressed with improved UI handling.
CVE-2020-9993: Masato Sugiyama (@smasato) of University of Tsukuba, Piotr Duszynski
Entry added November 12, 2020
Sandbox
Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later
Impact: A local user may be able to view senstive user information
Description: An access issue was addressed with additional sandbox restrictions.
CVE-2020-9969: Wojciech Reguła of SecuRing (wojciechregula.blog)
Entry added November 12, 2020
Sandbox
Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later
Impact: A malicious application may be able to access restricted files
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved restrictions.
CVE-2020-9968: Adam Chester (@xpn) of TrustedSec
Entry updated September 17, 2020
SQLite
Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause a denial of service
Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2020-13434
CVE-2020-13435
CVE-2020-9991
Entry added November 12, 2020
SQLite
Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later
Impact: Multiple issues in SQLite
Description: Multiple issues were addressed by updating SQLite to version 3.32.3.
CVE-2020-15358
Entry added November 12, 2020
SQLite
Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to leak memory
Description: An information disclosure issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2020-9849
Entry added November 12, 2020
SQLite
Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later
Impact: A maliciously crafted SQL query may lead to data corruption
Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2020-13631
Entry added November 12, 2020
SQLite
Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause arbitrary code execution
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2020-13630
Entry added November 12, 2020
WebKit
Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management.
CVE-2020-9947: cc working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative
CVE-2020-9950: cc working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative
CVE-2020-9951: Marcin ‘Icewall’ Noga of Cisco Talos
Entry added November 12, 2020
WebKit
Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to code execution
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2020-9983: zhunki
Entry added November 12, 2020
WebKit
Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to a cross site scripting attack
Description: An input validation issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2020-9952: Ryan Pickren (ryanpickren.com)
Audio
We would like to acknowledge JunDong Xie and XingWei Lin of Ant-financial Light-Year Security Lab for their assistance.
Entry added November 12, 2020
Bluetooth
We would like to acknowledge Andy Davis of NCC Group for their assistance.
Clang
We would like to acknowledge Brandon Azad of Google Project Zero for their assistance.
Entry added November 12, 2020
Core Location
We would like to acknowledge Yiğit Can YILMAZ (@yilmazcanyigit) for their assistance.
Crash Reporter
We would like to acknowledge Artur Byszko of AFINE for their assistance.
Entry added December 15, 2020
iAP
We would like to acknowledge Andy Davis of NCC Group for their assistance.
Entry added November 12, 2020
Kernel
We would like to acknowledge Brandon Azad of Google Project Zero, Stephen Röttger of Google for their assistance.
Entry updated November 12, 2020
Location Framework
We would like to acknowledge Nicolas Brunner (linkedin.com/in/nicolas-brunner-651bb4128) for their assistance.
Entry updated October 19, 2020
Mail Drafts
We would like to acknowledge Jon Bottarini of HackerOne for their assistance.
Entry added November 12, 2020
Safari
We would like to acknowledge Andreas Gutmann (@KryptoAndI) of OneSpan’s Innovation Centre (onespan.com) and University College London, Steven J. Murdoch (@SJMurdoch) of OneSpan’s Innovation Centre (onespan.com) and University College London, Jack Cable of Lightning Security, Ryan Pickren (ryanpickren.com), Yair Amit for their assistance.
Entry added October 19, 2020, updated November 12, 2020
WebKit
We would like to acknowledge Pawel Wylecial of REDTEAM.PL, Ryan Pickren (ryanpickren.com) for their assistance.
Entry added November 12, 2020
7.8 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
9.3 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C