Number: AV20-260
Date: 17 July 2020
On 15 July 2020 Apple released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities affecting the following products:
- Safari for macOS Mojave and macOS High Sierra, and included in macOS Catalina
- IOS for iPhone 5s, iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, iPad Air, iPad mini 2 and 3, iPod touch (6th generation)
- WatchOS for Apple Watch Series 1, 2, 3, and 4
- Xcode for macOS Mojave 10.15.2 and later
- iOS and iPadOS for iPhone 6s and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch 7th generation
- macOS Catalina, Mojave and High Sierra
The exploitation of some of these vulnerabilities could result in the disclosure of sensitive information, command injection and arbitrary code execution.
The Cyber Centre encourages users and administrators to review the following web links and apply the necessary updates.
Safari
https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT211292
iOS & iPadOS
https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT211288
tvOS
https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT211290
watchOS
https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT211291
MacOS
https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT211289
Apple security updates
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222
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