CVE-2020-10016: Apple iPadOS

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in macOS Big Sur 11.0.1, iOS 14.2 and iPadOS 14.2, tvOS 14.2, watchOS 7.1. An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.

Affected products

• Apple iPadOS: before 14.2 (fixed in 14.2)
• Apple iPhone OS: before 14.2 (fixed in 14.2)
• Apple Mac OS X: from 10.14.0, before 10.14.6 (fixed in 10.14.6); from 10.15, before 10.15.7 (fixed in 10.15.7); version 10.14.6 only; version 10.15.7 only
• Apple macOS: from 11.0, before 11.1 (fixed in 11.1)
• Apple tvOS: before 14.2 (fixed in 14.2)
• Apple watchOS: before 7.1 (fixed in 7.1)

Published 2020-12-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.