CVE-2020-9968: Apple iPadOS

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A logic issue was addressed with improved restrictions. This issue is fixed in iOS 14.0 and iPadOS 14.0, macOS Catalina 10.15.7, tvOS 14.0, watchOS 7.0. A malicious application may be able to access restricted files.

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

Published 2020-10-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.