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CVE-2020-9819

53
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-9819 is a memory consumption vulnerability affecting Apple iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS, where processing a maliciously crafted mail message can lead to heap corruption. This medium-severity flaw (CVSS 4.3) requires user interaction (UI:R) and could result in a denial of service (A:L). It is actively exploited (KEV: Yes), though no public exploit code is available via Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB. The vulnerability has garnered significant community and media attention, including a warning from the German government.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 13.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:ipados:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 12.4.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 13.0, < 13.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 5.3.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:watchos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 6.0.0, < 6.2.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:watchos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

4.3MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.18%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
80.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
Added to KEV · Nov 3, 2021
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0218 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 26,236 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

applevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

cisa.gov / known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
US Government Resource
support.apple.com / HT211168
Release NotesVendor Advisory
support.apple.com / HT211169
Release NotesVendor Advisory
support.apple.com / HT211175
Release NotesVendor Advisory
support.apple.com / HT211176
Release NotesVendor Advisory