About the security content of iOS 13.4 and iPadOS 13.4

This document describes the security content of iOS 13.4 and iPadOS 13.4.

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iOS 13.4 and iPadOS 13.4

Released 24 March 2020

Accounts

Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch 7th generation

Impact: A sandboxed process may be able to circumvent sandbox restrictions

Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved restrictions.

CVE-2020-9772: Allison Husain of UC Berkeley

Entry added 21 May 2020

ActionKit

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 use an SSH client provided by private frameworks

Description: This issue was addressed with a new entitlement.

CVE-2020-3917: Steven Troughton-Smith (@stroughtonsmith)

AppleMobileFileIntegrity

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 use arbitrary entitlements

Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2020-3883: Linus Henze (pinauten.de)

Bluetooth

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 intercept Bluetooth traffic

Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2020-9770: Jianliang Wu of PurSec Lab of Purdue University, Xinwen Fu and Yue Zhang of the University of Central Florida

CoreFoundation

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 permissions issue existed. This issue was addressed with improved permission validation.

CVE-2020-3913: Timo Christ of Avira Operations GmbH & Co. KG

Icons

Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch 7th generation

Impact: Setting an alternative app icon may disclose a photo without needing permission to access photos

Description: An access issue was addressed with additional sandbox restrictions.

CVE-2020-3916: Vitaliy Alekseev (@villy21)

Image Processing

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 system privileges

Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management.

CVE-2020-9768: Mohamed Ghannam (@_simo36)

IOHIDFamily

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 execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

Description: A memory initialisation issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2020-3919: Alex Plaskett of F-Secure Consulting

Entry updated 21 May 2020

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 read restricted memory

Description: A memory initialisation issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2020-3914: pattern-f (@pattern_F_) of WaCai

Kernel

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 execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2020-9785: Proteas of Qihoo 360 Nirvan Team

libxml2

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 libxml2

Description: A buffer overflow was addressed with improved size validation.

CVE-2020-3910: LGTM.com

libxml2

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 libxml2

Description: A buffer overflow was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2020-3909: LGTM.com

CVE-2020-3911: found by OSS-Fuzz

Mail

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 deleted content in the app switcher

Description: The issue was resolved by clearing application previews when content is deleted.

CVE-2020-9780: an anonymous researcher, Dimitris Chaintinis

Mail Attachments

Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch 7th generation

Impact: Cropped videos may not be shared properly via Mail

Description: An issue existed in the selection of video file by Mail. The issue was fixed by selecting the latest version of a video.

CVE-2020-9777

Messages

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 a locked iOS device may be able to respond to messages even when replies are disabled

Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2020-3891: Peter Scott

Messages Composition

Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch 7th generation

Impact: Deleted messages groups may still be suggested as an auto-completion

Description: The issue was addressed with improved deletion.

CVE-2020-3890: an anonymous researcher

Safari

Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch 7th generation

Impact: A user's private browsing activity may be unexpectedly saved in Screen Time

Description: An issue existed in the handling of tabs displaying picture in picture video. The issue was corrected with improved state handling.

CVE-2020-9775: Andrian (@retroplasma), Marat Turaev, Marek Wawro (futurefinance.com) and Sambor Wawro of STO64 School Krakow Poland

Entry updated 1 May 2020

Safari

Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch 7th generation

Impact: A user may grant website permissions to a site they didn't intend to

Description: The issue was addressed by clearing website permission prompts after navigation.

CVE-2020-9781: Nikhil Mittal (@c0d3G33k) of Payatu Labs (payatu.com)

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 sensitive user information

Description: An access issue was addressed with additional sandbox restrictions.

CVE-2020-3918: an anonymous researcher, Augusto Alvarez of Outcourse Limited

Entry added 1 May 2020, updated 21 May 2020

Web App

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 page may interfere with other web contexts

Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved restrictions.

CVE-2020-3888: Darren Jones of Dappological Ltd.

WebKit

Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch 7th generation

Impact: Some websites may not have appeared in Safari Preferences

Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved restrictions.

CVE-2020-9787: Ryan Pickren (ryanpickren.com)

Entry added 1 May 2020

WebKit

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: A race condition was addressed with additional validation.

CVE-2020-3894: Sergei Glazunov of Google Project Zero

WebKit

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 consumption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2020-3899: found by OSS-Fuzz

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-2020-3902: Yiğit Can YILMAZ (@yilmazcanyigit)

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 memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2020-3895: grigoritchy

CVE-2020-3900: Dongzhuo Zhao working with ADLab of Venustech

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 type confusion issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2020-3901: Benjamin Randazzo (@____benjamin)

WebKit

Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch 7th generation

Impact: A download's origin may be incorrectly associated

Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved restrictions.

CVE-2020-3887: Ryan Pickren (ryanpickren.com)

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: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management.

CVE-2020-9783: Apple

WebKit

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 type confusion issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2020-3897: Brendan Draper (@6r3nd4n) working with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative

WebKit Page Loading

Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch 7th generation

Impact: A file URL may be incorrectly processed

Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved restrictions.

CVE-2020-3885: Ryan Pickren (ryanpickren.com)

Additional recognition

4FontParser

We would like to acknowledge Matthew Denton of Google Chrome for their assistance.

Kernel

We would like to acknowledge Siguza for their assistance.

LinkPresentation

We would like to acknowledge Travis for their assistance.

Notes

We would like to acknowledge Mike DiLoreto for their assistance.

rapportd

We would like to acknowledge Alexander Heinrich (@Sn0wfreeze) of Technische Universität Darmstadt for their assistance.

Safari Reader

We would like to acknowledge Nikhil Mittal (@c0d3G33k) of Payatu Labs (payatu.com) for their assistance.

Sidecar

We would like to acknowledge Rick Backley (@rback_sec) for their assistance.

SiriKit

We would like to acknowledge Ioan Florescu and Ki Ha Nam for their assistance.

WebKit

We would like to acknowledge Emilio Cobos Álvarez of Mozilla, Samuel Groß of Google Project Zero, hearmen for their assistance.

Entry updated 4 April 2020

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