CVE-2020-9973: Apple iPadOS

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking. This issue is fixed in macOS Catalina 10.15.7, Security Update 2020-005 High Sierra, Security Update 2020-005 Mojave, iOS 14.0 and iPadOS 14.0. Processing a maliciously crafted USD file may lead to unexpected application termination or 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: 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

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