CVE-2021-1851: Apple iPadOS

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A logic issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in Security Update 2021-002 Catalina, Security Update 2021-003 Mojave, iOS 14.5 and iPadOS 14.5, watchOS 7.4, tvOS 14.5, macOS Big Sur 11.3. An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.

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: version 10.14 only; version 10.14.0 only; version 10.14.1 only; version 10.14.2 only; version 10.14.3 only; version 10.14.4 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.