CVE-2020-9973

7.8 highEPSS 1.9%

High (7.8) in apple. EPSS 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking. This issue is fixed in macOS Catalina 10.15.7, Security Update 2020-005 High Sierra, Security Update 2020-005 Mojave, iOS 14.0 and iPadOS 14.0. Processing a maliciously crafted USD file may lead to unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high

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

EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 80% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-125
Published: 2020-10-27
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

apple:ipados
apple:iphone_os
apple:mac_os_x

References

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Nov/20
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Nov/21
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211849
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211850
https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-1104

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