CVE-2021-1740: Apple iPadOS

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A parsing issue in the handling of directory paths was addressed with improved path validation. This issue is fixed in Security Update 2021-002 Catalina, iOS 14.5 and iPadOS 14.5, watchOS 7.4, tvOS 14.5, macOS Big Sur 11.3. A local user may be able to modify protected parts of the file system.

Affected products

• Apple iPadOS: before 14.5 (fixed in 14.5)
• Apple iPhone OS: before 14.5 (fixed in 14.5)
• Apple Mac OS X: from 10.15, up to and including 10.15.5; version 10.15.6 only; version 10.15.7 only
• Apple macOS: from 11.0, before 11.3 (fixed in 11.3)
• Apple tvOS: before 14.5 (fixed in 14.5)
• Apple watchOS: before 7.4 (fixed in 7.4)

Published 2021-09-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.