CVE-2021-31006: Apple macOS

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Description: A permissions issue was addressed with improved validation. This issue is fixed in watchOS 7.6, tvOS 14.7, macOS Big Sur 11.5. A malicious application may be able to bypass certain Privacy preferences.

Affected products

• Apple macOS: from 11.0, before 11.5 (fixed in 11.5)
• Apple tvOS: before 14.7 (fixed in 14.7)
• Apple watchOS: before 7.6 (fixed in 7.6)

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