CVE-2021-1782: Apple Multiple Products Race Condition Vulnerability

High severity, CVSS 7.0. Actively exploited: in CISA KEV since 2021-11-03. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A race condition was addressed with improved locking. This issue is fixed in macOS Big Sur 11.2, Security Update 2021-001 Catalina, Security Update 2021-001 Mojave, watchOS 7.3, tvOS 14.4, iOS 14.4 and iPadOS 14.4. A malicious application may be able to elevate privileges. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited..

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)
• Apple tvOS: before 14.4 (fixed in 14.4)
• Apple watchOS: before 7.3 (fixed in 7.3)

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