CVE-2021-30838: Apple iPadOS

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in iOS 15 and iPadOS 15. A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges on devices with an Apple Neural Engine.

Affected products

• Apple iPadOS: before 14.8 (fixed in 14.8)
• Apple iPhone OS: before 14.8 (fixed in 14.8)
• Apple macOS: from 11.0, before 11.6 (fixed in 11.6)

Published 2021-10-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.