THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2021-30955
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2021-30955

Ipados vulnerability

CVSS
7.0
EPSS
4.6%
EPSS pct
91th
Exploited
No known
A race condition was addressed with improved state handling. This issue is fixed in macOS Monterey 12.1, watchOS 8.3, iOS 15.2 and iPadOS 15.2, tvOS 15.2. A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.
Affected vendor
Apple
Affected product
Ipados
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2021-08-24

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable with local access, high attack complexity, requiring no privileges, user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.6% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 91% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2021-30955

  • Confirm whether Apple Ipados is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2021-30955.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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