CVE-2021-31007: Apple iPadOS

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Description: A permissions issue was addressed with improved validation. This issue is fixed in iOS 15.1 and iPadOS 15.1, tvOS 15.1, macOS Big Sur 11.6.2, watchOS 8.1, macOS Monterey 12.1. A malicious application may be able to bypass Privacy preferences.

Affected products

• Apple iPadOS: before 15.1 (fixed in 15.1)
• Apple iPhone OS: before 15.1 (fixed in 15.1)
• Apple macOS: from 11.0, before 11.6.2 (fixed in 11.6.2); from 12.0.0, before 12.1 (fixed in 12.1)
• Apple tvOS: before 15.1 (fixed in 15.1)
• Apple watchOS: before 8.1 (fixed in 8.1)

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