CVE-2020-9898: Apple iPadOS

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

This issue was addressed with improved entitlements. This issue is fixed in iOS 13.6 and iPadOS 13.6, macOS Catalina 10.15.6. A sandboxed process may be able to circumvent sandbox restrictions.

Affected products

• Apple iPadOS: before 13.6 (fixed in 13.6)
• Apple iPhone OS: before 13.6 (fixed in 13.6)
• Apple Mac OS X: from 10.13.6, before 10.15.6 (fixed in 10.15.6)

Published 2020-10-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.