CVE-2020-9850A logic issue was addressed with improved restrictions. This issue is fixed in iOS 13.5 and iPadOS 13.5, tvOS 13.4.5, watchOS 6.2.5,…
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 77.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.4% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
A logic issue was addressed with improved restrictions. This issue is fixed in iOS 13.5 and iPadOS 13.5, tvOS 13.4.5, watchOS 6.2.5, Safari 13.1.1, iTunes 12.10.7 for Windows, iCloud for Windows 11.2, iCloud for Windows 7.19. A remote attacker may be able to cause arbitrary code execution.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module for it.
Show the exploits1
Metasploit modules1 module
- Safari in Operator Side Effect Exploit (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/osx/browser/safari_in_operator_side_effectRank manualdisclosed 18 Mar 2020
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By apple
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 77.4% · top 0.4% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
- affected unspecified – < iOS 13.5 and iPadOS 13.5
- affected unspecified – < tvOS 13.4.5
- affected unspecified – < watchOS 6.2.5
- affected unspecified – < Safari 13.1.1
- affected unspecified – < iTunes 12.10.7 for Windows
- affected unspecified – < iCloud for Windows 11.2
Apple · iCloud for Windows (Legacy)
- affected unspecified – < iCloud for Windows 7.19
References
References7
- https://support.apple.com/HT211168 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/HT211171 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/HT211175 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/HT211178 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/HT211179 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/HT211181 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/HT211177 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2020-30629 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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