CVE-2020-9907 on CISA KEV

A memory corruption issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code. This issue is fixed in iOS 13.6 and iPadOS 13.6, tvOS 13.4.8. An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.

01What CISA says about this vulnerability

A memory corruption issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code. This issue is fixed in iOS 13.6 and iPadOS 13.6, tvOS 13.4.8. An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.

02Required action — verbatim from CISA

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

03Notes & references

• support.apple.com — https://support.apple.com/HT211288
• support.apple.com — https://support.apple.com/HT211290

04SARA's analyst layer — why this matters

This vulnerability is currently on the CISA KEV list, which CISA only adds CVEs to when there is reliable evidence of active exploitation in the wild. For federal civilian agencies, BOD 22-01 requires remediation by the due date above. For everyone else, KEV is the strongest "patch immediately" signal you can get from public threat intel.

05Affected products (summary)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Apple	iOS	unspecified
Apple	tvOS	unspecified

06Detection

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