CVE-2020-9973

Exploitation

Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.

SSVC decision

Not assessed by CISA

EPSS probability

1.94% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 78.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

7.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.

Red Hat severity

No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

Published

2020-10-27 20:53Z5 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-04 10:50Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2020-03-02

Assigning CNA

apple

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-125Out-of-bounds ReadBase

Data version

5.1

Document digest

5dc49e3dd329d2f8df3d2f8672ad5ae9f1f5dfbe25c119d06fc88cc6b23d8ec8

• support.apple.comhttps://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211849x_refsource_MISC
• support.apple.comhttps://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211850x_refsource_MISC
• www.talosintelligence.comhttps://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-1104x_refsource_MISC
• seclists.org20201115 APPLE-SA-2020-11-13-3 Additional information for APPLE-SA-2020-09-16-1 iOS 14.0 and iPadOS 14.0http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Nov/20mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
• seclists.org20201115 APPLE-SA-2020-11-13-7 Additional information for APPLE-SA-2020-09-24-1 macOS Catalina 10.15.7, Security Update 2020-005 High Sierra, Security Update 2020-005 Mojavehttp://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Nov/21mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC