Number: AV20-410
Date: 6 November 2020
On 5 November 2020 Apple published Security Updates to address vulnerabilities affecting the following products:
- watchOS
- macOS Catalina
- tvOS
- iOS
Exploitation of these vulnerabilities could result in credential disclosure, unauthorized file access, unexpected application termination, elevation of privileges, cross site scripting and arbitrary code execution. Apple is aware of reports that exploits for some of these issues have been posted online.
The Cyber Centre encourages users and administrators to review the following web links and apply the necessary updates.
watchOS
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT211928
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT211944
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT211945
macOS Catalina
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT211947
tvOS
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT211930
iOS
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT211929
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT211940
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