CVE-2020-9954: Apple iPadOS

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A buffer overflow issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in watchOS 7.0, tvOS 14.0, macOS Catalina 10.15.7, Security Update 2020-005 High Sierra, Security Update 2020-005 Mojave, iOS 14.0 and iPadOS 14.0. Playing a malicious audio file may lead to arbitrary code execution.

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: before 10.15.7 (fixed in 10.15.7)
• Apple tvOS: before 14.0 (fixed in 14.0)
• Apple watchOS: before 7.0 (fixed in 7.0)

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