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CVE-2020-9865

21
FAUCET Score

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.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(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 Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.6HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
6.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.91%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
56.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0091 is in the 53rd percentile among its peer group of 11,621 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

applevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

support.apple.com / HT211288
Vendor Advisory
support.apple.com / HT211289
Vendor Advisory
support.apple.com / HT211290
Vendor Advisory
support.apple.com / HT211291
Vendor Advisory