CVE-2021-1873

6.5 mediumEPSS 1.2%

Medium (6.5) in apple. EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An API issue in Accessibility TCC permissions was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in macOS Big Sur 11.3, Security Update 2021-002 Catalina, Security Update 2021-003 Mojave. A malicious application may be able to unexpectedly leak a user's credentials from secure text fields.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

6.5 medium

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

EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 69% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
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/HT212327
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212325
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212326

Check your stack JSON