Apple iOS and iPadOS

CVE-2026-20700
HIGH 7.8CISA KEV ↗Exploited per ENISA since 2026-02-12

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 1.68 % · percentile 77 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
apple
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in iOS 26.3 and iPadOS 26.3, macOS Tahoe 26.3, tvOS 26.3, visionOS 26.3, watchOS 26.3. An attacker with memory write capability may be able to execute arbitrary code. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals on versions of iOS before iOS 26. CVE-2025-14174 and CVE-2025-43529 were also issued in response to this report.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCISA-ADP
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Apple · iOS and iPadOSaffected 0 < 26.3
Apple · macOSaffected 0 < 26.3
Apple · tvOSaffected 0 < 26.3
Apple · visionOSaffected 0 < 26.3
Apple · watchOSaffected 0 < 26.3

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
CISA Known Exploited VulnerabilitiesCC0 1.0
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD