CVE-2021-1841

7.8 highEPSS 1.3%

High (7.8) in apple. EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges. This issue is fixed in macOS Big Sur 11.3, Security Update 2021-002 Catalina. An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 70% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-787
Published: 2021-09-08
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

apple:mac_os_x
apple:macos

References

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212325
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212326
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212325
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212326

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