CVE-2021-30852: Apple iPadOS

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A type confusion issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in iOS 14.8 and iPadOS 14.8, tvOS 15, watchOS 8, iOS 15 and iPadOS 15. Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution.

Affected products

• Apple iPadOS: before 14.8 (fixed in 14.8)
• Apple iPhone OS: before 14.8 (fixed in 14.8)
• Apple macOS: before 12.0.1 (fixed in 12.0.1)
• Apple tvOS: before 15.0 (fixed in 15.0)
• Apple watchOS: before 8.0 (fixed in 8.0)

Published 2021-08-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.