CVE-2013-0981: Apple iPhone OS

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The IOUSBDeviceFamily driver in the USB implementation in the kernel in Apple iOS before 6.1.3 and Apple TV before 5.2.1 accesses pipe object pointers that originated in userspace, which allows local users to gain privileges via crafted code.

Affected products

• Apple iPhone OS: up to and including 6.1.2; version 1.0.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.1.0 only; version 1.1.1 only; …
• Apple tvOS: up to and including 5.2.0; version 1.0.0 only; version 1.1.0 only; version 2.0.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.2 only; …

Published 2013-03-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.