CVE-2020-9988: Apple iPadOS

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The issue was addressed with improved deletion. This issue is fixed in macOS Big Sur 11.0.1, iOS 14.0 and iPadOS 14.0. A local user may be able to discover a user’s deleted messages.

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.