CVE-2021-1781: Apple iPadOS

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A privacy issue existed in the handling of Contact cards. This was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in macOS Big Sur 11.2, Security Update 2021-001 Catalina, Security Update 2021-001 Mojave, iOS 14.4 and iPadOS 14.4. A malicious application may be able to leak sensitive user information.

Affected products

• Apple iPadOS: before 14.4 (fixed in 14.4)
• Apple iPhone OS: before 14.4 (fixed in 14.4)
• Apple Mac OS X: from 10.14, before 10.14.6 (fixed in 10.14.6); from 10.15, before 10.15.7 (fixed in 10.15.7); version 10.14.6 only; version 10.15.7 only
• Apple macOS: from 11.0, before 11.2 (fixed in 11.2)

Published 2021-04-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.