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CVE-2020-10016
A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in macOS Big Sur 11.0.1, iOS 14.2 and iPadOS…
High7.8EPSS 1.7%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- apple
Description
A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in macOS Big Sur 11.0.1, iOS 14.2 and iPadOS 14.2, tvOS 14.2, watchOS 7.1. An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.
Timeline
ID reserved
By apple
- 9 months later
· 9 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 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.7% · top 23% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Weakness
- An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
- CWE-787 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-787 and its CVEs
Affected products
References (7)
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211931 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211928 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211929 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211930 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT212011 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 20201215 APPLE-SA-2020-12-14-4 Additional information for APPLE-SA-2020-11-13-1 macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- 20201215 APPLE-SA-2020-12-14-3 macOS Big Sur 11.1, Security Update 2020-001 Catalina, Security Update 2020-007 Mojave (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_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)
- 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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[](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2020-10016)Record last updated .