CVE-2020-27920: Apple iPadOS

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management. This issue is fixed in macOS Big Sur 11.1, Security Update 2020-001 Catalina, Security Update 2020-007 Mojave, macOS Big Sur 11.0.1, iOS 14.2 and iPadOS 14.2, watchOS 7.1, tvOS 14.2. Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to code execution.

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: before 11.0.1 (fixed in 11.0.1); before 11.1.0 (fixed in 11.1.0)
  • Apple tvOS: before 14.2 (fixed in 14.2)
  • Apple watchOS: before 7.1 (fixed in 7.1)

Published 2021-04-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.