{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 5 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-9978 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2020-9978 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2020-9978 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Apple Ipados, published on 2 Apr 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2020-9978 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2020-9978 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Apple Ipados, published on 2 Apr 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-9978 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Apple Ipados. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-9978/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-9978/index.md)","id":"CVE-2020-9978","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-9978/index.md","name":"CVE-2020-9978","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-5hfq-49hj-vmf5"],"analysis":{"component_type":"operating_system","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["data_modify"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Apple operating systems","requires_auth":"high_privilege","summary":"An attacker in a privileged network position can unexpectedly alter application state across multiple Apple operating systems.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"other"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"apple","cpe":[{"product":"ipados","vendor":"apple"},{"product":"iphone_os","vendor":"apple"},{"product":"mac_os_x","vendor":"apple"},{"product":"macos","vendor":"apple"},{"product":"watchos","vendor":"apple"}],"cvss":{"score":4.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[],"description":"This issue was addressed with improved setting propagation. This issue is fixed in macOS Big Sur 11.0.1, tvOS 14.0, macOS Big Sur 11.1, Security Update 2020-001 Catalina, Security Update 2020-007 Mojave, watchOS 7.0, iOS 14.0 and iPadOS 14.0. An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to unexpectedly alter application state.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Other in iOS and iPadOS","id":"CVE-2020-9978","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"apple:ipados","products":["apple:ipados","apple:iphone_os","apple:mac_os_x","apple:macos","apple:watchos"],"type":"other","year":"2020"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":5,"next":{"headline":"Security feature bypass in iOS and iPadOS","id":"CVE-2020-9979"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Information disclosure in iOS and iPadOS","id":"CVE-2020-9977"},"products":["iOS and iPadOS","macOS","tvOS","watchOS"],"published":"2021-04-02","related":[{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Apple iOS, iPadOS, and macOS Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2025-43300","kev_date_added":"2025-08-21","published":"2025-08-21"},{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Apple Multiple Products WebKit Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2025-24201","kev_date_added":"2025-03-13","published":"2025-03-11"},{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Apple Multiple Products Use-After-Free","id":"CVE-2025-24085","kev_date_added":"2025-01-29","published":"2025-01-27"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Apple Multiple Products Memory Corruption","id":"CVE-2025-31200","kev_date_added":"2025-04-17","published":"2025-04-16"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Apple Multiple Products Arbitrary Read and Write","id":"CVE-2025-31201","kev_date_added":"2025-04-17","published":"2025-04-16"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Apple Memory Corruption","id":"CVE-2022-22587","kev_date_added":"2022-01-28","published":"2022-03-18"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Apple iOS, iPadOS, and macOS WebKit Remote Code Execution","id":"CVE-2021-1870","kev_date_added":"2021-11-03","published":"2021-04-02"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-04","vendors":["Apple"]},"summary":"An attacker in a privileged network position can unexpectedly alter application state across multiple Apple operating systems.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-9978/"}