CVE-2020-9992: Apple iPadOS

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

This issue was addressed by encrypting communications over the network to devices running iOS 14, iPadOS 14, tvOS 14, and watchOS 7. This issue is fixed in iOS 14.0 and iPadOS 14.0, Xcode 12.0. An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to execute arbitrary code on a paired device during a debug session over the network.

Affected products

• Apple iPadOS: before 14.0 (fixed in 14.0)
• Apple iPhone OS: before 14.0 (fixed in 14.0)
• Apple Xcode: before 12.0 (fixed in 12.0)

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