CVE-2020-9963: Apple iPadOS

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The issue was addressed with improved handling of icon caches. This issue is fixed in macOS Big Sur 11.0.1, iOS 14.0 and iPadOS 14.0. A malicious app may be able to determine the existence of files on the computer.

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 11.0.1 (fixed in 11.0.1)

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