CVE-2020-9963 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting Apple's macOS Big Sur, iOS, and iPadOS, allowing a malicious application to determine the existence of files on a user's device due to improper handling of icon caches. With a CVSS score of 5.5, this local vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) to exploit, but could lead to high confidentiality impact (C:H). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, making it a low-priority threat at this time. The issue was patched in macOS Big Sur 11.0.1, iOS 14.0, and iPadOS 14.0.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 14.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:apple:ipados:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 14.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 11.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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