01 Record
CVE-2020-9979
A trust issue was addressed by removing a legacy API. This issue is fixed in iOS 14.0 and iPadOS 14.0, tvOS 14.0. An attacker may be able to misuse a trust relationship to download malicious content.
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: apple
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
A trust issue was addressed by removing a legacy API. This issue is fixed in iOS 14.0 and iPadOS 14.0, tvOS 14.0. An attacker may be able to misuse a trust relationship to download malicious content.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- 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
- 0.41% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 35.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 5.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- 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.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2020-10-27 20:52Z6 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
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- a5c3d34e8a06fe1d524106551de00f58274d0bb045b30bedca7fc57f031e48cc
05 Affected products
06 References
- support.apple.comhttps://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211843
- support.apple.comhttps://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211850
- seclists.org20201115 APPLE-SA-2020-11-13-4 Additional information for APPLE-SA-2020-09-16-2 tvOS 14.0http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Nov/19
- 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/20