CVE-2020-9907
Apple Multiple Products Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Does this matter?
Known to be exploited in the wild (CISA KEV, CISA remediation deadline 18 July 2022). Treat as an emergency change: patch or isolate now, then hunt for prior compromise.
Description
A memory corruption issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code. This issue is fixed in iOS 13.6 and iPadOS 13.6, tvOS 13.4.8. An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 3.20% probability · 88th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Listed 27 June 2022 · due 18 July 2022
- Weakness
- CWE-787
- Affected
- apple/ipados · apple/iphone os · apple/tvos
- Source
- product-security@apple.com
EPSS 3.2% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
CISA notes
Apply updates per vendor instructions. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-9907
References
- https://support.apple.com/HT211288Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/HT211290Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/HT211288Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/HT211290Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2020-9907US Government Resource
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.