CVE-2021-30996: Apple iPadOS

High severity, CVSS 7.0. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A race condition was addressed with improved state handling. This issue is fixed in macOS Monterey 12.1, iOS 15.2 and iPadOS 15.2. A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.

Affected products

• Apple iPadOS: before 15.2 (fixed in 15.2)
• Apple iPhone OS: before 15.2 (fixed in 15.2)
• Apple macOS: before 12.1 (fixed in 12.1)

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