Ipados
CVE-2020-9862
HIGH
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V1 - Encoding and Sanitization Command injection prevention
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Execution The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS score of 7.8 (HIGH). Attack characteristics: local attack vector, low complexity, no privileges required, user interaction required. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A local attacker with access to the system could inject arbitrary commands into system command execution. No authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. |
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Alert meAnalysisAI
A command injection issue existed in Web Inspector. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Use parameterized APIs, avoid shell execution, validate input with strict allowlists.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This vulnerability is classified as Command Injection (CWE-77), which allows attackers to inject arbitrary commands into system command execution. A command injection issue existed in Web Inspector. This issue was addressed with improved escaping. This issue is fixed in iOS 13.6 and iPadOS 13.6, tvOS 13.4.8, watchOS 6.2.8, Safari 13.1.2, iTunes 12.10.8 for Windows, iCloud for Windows 11.3, iCloud for Windows 7.20. Copying a URL from Web Inspector may lead to command injection. Affected products include: Apple Icloud, Apple Itunes, Apple Safari, Apple Ipados, Apple Iphone Os.
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CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
A command injection issue existed in Web Inspector. This issue was addressed with improved escaping. This issue is fixed in iOS 13.6 and iPadOS 13.6, tvOS 13.4.8, watchOS 6.2.8, Safari 13.1.2, iTunes 12.10.8 for Windows, iCloud for Windows 11.3, iCloud for Windows 7.20. Copying a URL from Web Inspector may lead to command injection.
Threat Intelligence Overview
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Attack Technique
OS command injection occurs when an application passes unsanitized user input directly into system shell commands.
Affected Products (CPE)NVD
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WebKit memory corruption in Safari 18.6 and multiple Apple platforms allows remote code execution when processing malici
A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability
A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability
Apple kernel lock state checking flaw allows a malicious application to cause unexpected changes in memory shared betwee
A critical out-of-bounds write in WebKit's rendering engine allows maliciously crafted web content to escape the Web Con
Apple kernel memory corruption in multiple operating systems allows a malicious application to cause unexpected system t
Arbitrary code execution in Apple Safari, iOS/iPadOS, macOS Sequoia, and visionOS occurs when processing maliciously cra
zlib through 1.2.12 has a heap-based buffer over-read or buffer overflow in inflate in inflate.c via a large gzip header
Out-of-bounds write (CWE-787) in QtWebEngine before 6.10.1-r2 on Alpine Linux, and in other Chromium-based engines such
Remote code execution in Google Chrome's ANGLE graphics layer allows attackers to compromise systems via crafted HTML pa
WebKit arbitrary code execution via use-after-free memory corruption affects Safari 26.2, iOS/iPadOS 18.7.3 through 26.2
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