CVE-2020-9865 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability affecting Apple's iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS. A malicious application could exploit this flaw to escape its sandbox, leading to significant compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 8.6, indicating a high risk, and requires user interaction (UI:R) for exploitation. While no public exploit code or active exploitation has been observed, and community discussion is minimal, the potential for a complete system takeover makes patching critical. This issue was resolved by Apple through code removal in iOS 13.6, iPadOS 13.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.6, tvOS 13.4.8, and watchOS 6.2.8.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 13.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:apple:ipados:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 13.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 10.15.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 13.4.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:apple:tvos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 6.2.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:apple:watchos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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