CVE-2020-9941: Apple iPadOS

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

This issue was addressed with improved checks. This issue is fixed in macOS Catalina 10.15.7, Security Update 2020-005 High Sierra, Security Update 2020-005 Mojave. A remote attacker may be able to unexpectedly alter application state.

Affected products

• Apple iPadOS: before 14.0 (fixed in 14.0)
• Apple iPhone OS: before 14.0 (fixed in 14.0)
• Apple Mac OS X: from 10.13, before 10.13.6 (fixed in 10.13.6); from 10.14, before 10.14.6 (fixed in 10.14.6); from 10.15, before 10.15.7 (fixed in 10.15.7); version 10.13.6 only; version 10.14.6 only
• Apple macOS: version 11.0 only
• Apple watchOS: before 7.0 (fixed in 7.0)

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