apple ipados CVE-2020-3837 vulnerability in Apple Products
Published on February 27, 2020

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A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in iOS 13.3.1 and iPadOS 13.3.1, macOS Catalina 10.15.3, tvOS 13.3.1, watchOS 6.1.2. An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.

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Known Exploited Vulnerability

This Apple Multiple Products Memory Corruption Vulnerability is part of CISA's list of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities. Apple iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS contain a memory corruption vulnerability that could allow an application to execute code with kernel privileges.

The following remediation steps are recommended / required by July 18, 2022: Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2020-3837 can be exploited with local system access, requires user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. It has an exploitability score of 1.8 out of four. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.

What is a Buffer Overflow Vulnerability?

The software performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer.

CVE-2020-3837 has been classified to as a Buffer Overflow vulnerability or weakness.


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