CVE-2019-8829: Apple iPadOS

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A memory corruption vulnerability was addressed with improved locking. This issue is fixed in macOS Catalina 10.15.1, Security Update 2019-001, and Security Update 2019-006, watchOS 6.1, tvOS 13.2, iOS 13.2 and iPadOS 13.2. An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.

Affected products

• Apple iPadOS: before 13.2 (fixed in 13.2)
• Apple iPhone OS: before 13.2 (fixed in 13.2)
• Apple Mac OS X: before 10.15.1 (fixed in 10.15.1)
• Apple tvOS: before 13.2 (fixed in 13.2)
• Apple watchOS: before 6.1 (fixed in 6.1)

Published 2020-10-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.