About the security content of iOS 14.0 and iPadOS 14.0
This document describes the security content of iOS 14.0 and iPadOS 14.0.
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iOS 14.0 and iPadOS 14.0
AppleAVD
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: An application may be able to cause unexpected system termination or write kernel memory
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2020-9958: Mohamed Ghannam (@_simo36)
Assets
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: An attacker may be able to misuse a trust relationship to download malicious content
Description: A trust issue was addressed by removing a legacy API.
CVE-2020-9979: CodeColorist of LightYear Security Lab of AntGroup
Audio
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: A malicious application may be able to read restricted memory
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2020-9943: JunDong Xie of Ant Group Light-Year Security Lab
Audio
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: An application may be able to read restricted memory
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2020-9944: JunDong Xie of Ant Group Light-Year Security Lab
CoreAudio
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted audio file may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2020-9960: JunDong Xie and Xingwei Lin of Ant Security Light-Year Lab
CoreAudio
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: Playing a malicious audio file may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: A buffer overflow issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2020-9954: Francis working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative, JunDong Xie of Ant Group Light-Year Security Lab
CoreCapture
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management.
CVE-2020-9949: Proteas
CoreText
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted text file may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2020-9999: Apple
Disk Images
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2020-9965: Proteas
CVE-2020-9966: Proteas
FontParser
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: A malicious application may be able to read restricted memory
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2020-29629: an anonymous researcher
FontParser
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted font file may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2020-9956: Mickey Jin and Junzhi Lu of Trend Micro Mobile Security Research Team working with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative
FontParser
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: A buffer overflow was addressed with improved size validation.
CVE-2020-9962: Yiğit Can YILMAZ (@yilmazcanyigit)
FontParser
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted font file may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: A memory corruption issue existed in the processing of font files. This issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2020-27931: Apple
FontParser
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted font may result in the disclosure of process memory
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2020-29639: Mickey Jin & Qi Sun of Trend Micro
HomeKit
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to unexpectedly alter application state
Description: This issue was addressed with improved setting propagation.
CVE-2020-9978: Luyi Xing, Dongfang Zhao, and Xiaofeng Wang of Indiana University Bloomington, Yan Jia of Xidian University and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Bin Yuan of HuaZhong University of Science and Technology
Icons
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: A malicious application may be able to identify what other applications a user has installed
Description: The issue was addressed with improved handling of icon caches.
CVE-2020-9773: Chilik Tamir of Zimperium zLabs
IDE Device Support
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: 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
Description: This issue was addressed by encrypting communications over the network to devices running iOS 14, iPadOS 14, tvOS 14, and watchOS 7.
CVE-2020-9992: Dany Lisiansky (@DanyL931), Nikias Bassen of Zimperium zLabs
ImageIO
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted tiff file may lead to a denial-of-service or potentially disclose memory contents
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2020-36521: Xingwei Lin of Ant-Financial Light-Year Security Lab
ImageIO
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2020-9955: Mickey Jin of Trend Micro, Xingwei Lin of Ant Security Light-Year Lab
ImageIO
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2020-9961: Xingwei Lin of Ant Security Light-Year Lab
ImageIO
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: Opening a maliciously crafted PDF file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2020-9876: Mickey Jin of Trend Micro
IOSurfaceAccelerator
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: A local user may be able to read kernel memory
Description: A memory initialization issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2020-9964: Mohamed Ghannam (@_simo36), Tommy Muir (@Muirey03)
Kernel
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory
Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2020-9967: Alex Plaskett (@alexjplaskett)
Kernel
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management.
CVE-2020-9975: Tielei Wang of Pangu Lab
Kernel
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to inject into active connections within a VPN tunnel
Description: A routing issue was addressed with improved restrictions.
CVE-2019-14899: William J. Tolley, Beau Kujath, and Jedidiah R. Crandall
Keyboard
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: A malicious application may be able to leak sensitive user information
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2020-9976: Rias A. Sherzad of JAIDE GmbH in Hamburg, Germany
libxml2
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted file may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management.
CVE-2020-9981: found by OSS-Fuzz
libxpc
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: A malicious application may be able to elevate privileges
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved validation.
CVE-2020-9971: Zhipeng Huo (@R3dF09) of Tencent Security Xuanwu Lab
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to unexpectedly alter application state
Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2020-9941: Fabian Ising of FH Münster University of Applied Sciences and Damian Poddebniak of FH Münster University of Applied Sciences
Messages
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: A local user may be able to discover a user’s deleted messages
Description: The issue was addressed with improved deletion.
CVE-2020-9988: William Breuer of the Netherlands
CVE-2020-9989: von Brunn Media
Model I/O
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted USD file may lead to unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2020-13520: Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos
Model I/O
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted USD file may lead to unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: A buffer overflow issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2020-6147: Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos
CVE-2020-9972: Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos
Model I/O
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted USD file may lead to unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2020-9973: Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos
NetworkExtension
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: A malicious application may be able to elevate privileges
Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management.
CVE-2020-9996: Zhiwei Yuan of Trend Micro iCore Team, Junzhi Lu and Mickey Jin of Trend Micro
Phone
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: The screen lock may not engage after the specified time period
Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2020-9946: Daniel Larsson of iolight AB
Quick Look
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: A malicious app may be able to determine the existence of files on the computer
Description: The issue was addressed with improved handling of icon caches.
CVE-2020-9963: Csaba Fitzl (@theevilbit) of Offensive Security
Safari
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: A malicious application may be able to determine a user's open tabs in Safari
Description: A validation issue existed in the entitlement verification. This issue was addressed with improved validation of the process entitlement.
CVE-2020-9977: Josh Parnham (@joshparnham)
Safari
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: Visiting a malicious website may lead to address bar spoofing
Description: The issue was addressed with improved UI handling.
CVE-2020-9993: Masato Sugiyama (@smasato) of University of Tsukuba, Piotr Duszynski
Sandbox
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: A local user may be able to view senstive user information
Description: An access issue was addressed with additional sandbox restrictions.
CVE-2020-9969: Wojciech Reguła of SecuRing (wojciechregula.blog)
Sandbox
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: A malicious application may be able to access restricted files
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved restrictions.
CVE-2020-9968: Adam Chester (@_xpn_) of TrustedSec
Siri
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: A person with physical access to an iOS device may be able to view notification contents from the lockscreen
Description: A lock screen issue allowed access to messages on a locked device. This issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2020-9959: an anonymous researcher, an anonymous researcher, an anonymous researcher, an anonymous researcher, an anonymous researcher, an anonymous researcher, Andrew Goldberg The University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business, Meli̇h Kerem Güneş of Li̇v College, Sinan Gulguler
SQLite
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause a denial of service
Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2020-13434
CVE-2020-13435
CVE-2020-9991
SQLite
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to leak memory
Description: An information disclosure issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2020-9849
SQLite
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: Multiple issues in SQLite
Description: Multiple issues were addressed by updating SQLite to version 3.32.3.
CVE-2020-15358
SQLite
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: A maliciously crafted SQL query may lead to data corruption
Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2020-13631
SQLite
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause arbitrary code execution
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2020-13630
WebKit
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management.
CVE-2020-9947: cc working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative
CVE-2020-9950: cc working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative
CVE-2020-9951: Marcin 'Icewall' Noga of Cisco Talos
WebKit
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to code execution
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2020-9983: zhunki
WebKit
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to a cross site scripting attack
Description: An input validation issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2020-9952: Ryan Pickren (ryanpickren.com)
Wi-Fi
Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2020-10013: Yu Wang of Didi Research America
Additional recognition
802.1X
We would like to acknowledge Kenana Dalle of Hamad bin Khalifa University and Ryan Riley of Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar for their assistance.
App Store
We would like to acknowledge Giyas Umarov of Holmdel High School for their assistance.
Audio
We would like to acknowledge JunDong Xie and Xingwei Lin of Ant-Financial Light-Year Security Lab for their assistance.
Bluetooth
We would like to acknowledge Andy Davis of NCC Group and Dennis Heinze (@ttdennis) of TU Darmstadt, Secure Mobile Networking Lab for their assistance.
CallKit
We would like to acknowledge Federico Zanetello for their assistance.
CarPlay
We would like to acknowledge an anonymous researcher for their assistance.
Clang
We would like to acknowledge Brandon Azad of Google Project Zero for their assistance.
Core Location
We would like to acknowledge Yiğit Can YILMAZ (@yilmazcanyigit) for their assistance.
Crash Reporter
We would like to acknowledge Artur Byszko of AFINE for their assistance.
debugserver
We would like to acknowledge Linus Henze (pinauten.de) for their assistance.
FaceTime
We would like to acknowledge Federico Zanetello for their assistance.
iAP
We would like to acknowledge Andy Davis of NCC Group for their assistance.
iBoot
We would like to acknowledge Brandon Azad of Google Project Zero for their assistance.
Kernel
We would like to acknowledge Brandon Azad of Google Project Zero, Stephen Röttger of Google for their assistance.
libarchive
We would like to acknowledge Dzmitry Plotnikau and an anonymous researcher for their assistance.
libxml2
We would like to acknowledge an anonymous researcher for their assistance.
lldb
We would like to acknowledge Linus Henze (pinauten.de) for their assistance.
Location Framework
We would like to acknowledge Nicolas Brunner (linkedin.com/in/nicolas-brunner-651bb4128) for their assistance.
We would like to acknowledge an anonymous researcher for their assistance.
Mail Drafts
We would like to acknowledge Jon Bottarini of HackerOne for their assistance.
Maps
We would like to acknowledge Matthew Dolan of Amazon Alexa for their assistance.
NetworkExtension
We would like to acknowledge Thijs Alkemade of Computest and ‘Qubo Song’ of ‘Symantec, a division of Broadcom’ for their assistance.
Phone Keypad
We would like to acknowledge Hasan Fahrettin Kaya of Akdeniz University Faculty of Tourism, an anonymous researcher for their assistance.
Safari
We would like to acknowledge Andreas Gutmann (@KryptoAndI) of OneSpan's Innovation Centre (onespan.com) and University College London, Steven J. Murdoch (@SJMurdoch) of OneSpan's Innovation Centre (onespan.com) and University College London, Jack Cable of Lightning Security, Ryan Pickren (ryanpickren.com), Yair Amit for their assistance.
Safari Reader
We would like to acknowledge Zhiyang Zeng (@Wester) of OPPO ZIWU Security Lab for their assistance.
Security
We would like to acknowledge Christian Starkjohann of Objective Development Software GmbH for their assistance.
Status Bar
We would like to acknowledge Abdul M. Majumder, Abdullah Fasihallah of Taif university, Adwait Vikas Bhide, Frederik Schmid, Nikita, and an anonymous researcher for their assistance.
Telephony
We would like to acknowledge Onur Can Bıkmaz, Vodafone Turkey @canbkmaz, Yiğit Can YILMAZ (@yilmazcanyigit), an anonymous researcher for their assistance.
UIKit
We would like to acknowledge Borja Marcos of Sarenet, Simon de Vegt, and Talal Haj Bakry (@hajbakri) and Tommy Mysk (@tommymysk) of Mysk Inc for their assistance.
Web App
We would like to acknowledge Augusto Alvarez of Outcourse Limited for their assistance.
Web App
We would like to acknowledge Augusto Alvarez of Outcourse Limited for their assistance.
WebKit
We would like to acknowledge Pawel Wylecial of REDTEAM.PL, Ryan Pickren (ryanpickren.com), Tsubasa FUJII (@reinforchu), Zhiyang Zeng(@Wester) of OPPO ZIWU Security Lab, and Maximilian Blochberger of the Security in Distributed Systems Group of University of Hamburg for their assistance.
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