CVE-2020-9816: Apple iPadOS

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking. This issue is fixed in iOS 13.5 and iPadOS 13.5, macOS Catalina 10.15.5, tvOS 13.4.5, watchOS 6.2.5. Opening a maliciously crafted PDF file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution.

Affected products

• Apple iPadOS: before 13.5 (fixed in 13.5)
• Apple iPhone OS: before 13.5 (fixed in 13.5)
• Apple Mac OS X: before 10.15.5 (fixed in 10.15.5)
• Apple tvOS: before 13.4.5 (fixed in 13.4.5)
• Apple watchOS: before 6.2.5 (fixed in 6.2.5)

Published 2020-06-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.