CVE-2020-9989: 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, watchOS 7.0, 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)
• Apple watchOS: before 7.0 (fixed in 7.0)

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