CVE-2019-8901: Apple iPadOS

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

This issue was addressed by verifying host keys when connecting to a previously-known SSH server. This issue is fixed in iOS 13.1 and iPadOS 13.1. An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to intercept SSH traffic from the “Run script over SSH” action.

Affected products

• Apple iPadOS: before 13.1 (fixed in 13.1)
• Apple iPhone OS: before 13.1 (fixed in 13.1)

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