CVE-2020-27930

What is affected

Vendor	Apple
Product	Multiple Products
Weakness	CWE-787

The vulnerability

Apple iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS FontParser contain a memory corruption vulnerability which may allow for code execution when processing maliciously crafted front.

Required action

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

US federal civilian agencies were required to act by 3 May 2022 under BOD 22-01. The deadline is a compliance date, not a measure of severity — it says nothing about how dangerous the flaw is to anyone else.

Where this comes from

Every field on this page is taken from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, last synced 12 Nov 2026, 00:29. Nothing here is our own assessment. For the technical scoring, see the NVD record below.

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