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CVE-2021-1865
An issue obscuring passwords in screenshots was addressed with improved logic. This issue is fixed in iOS 14.5 and iPadOS 14.5. A user's…
Medium5.0EPSS 0.50%
- Published
- Updated
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- Assigned by
- apple
Description
An issue obscuring passwords in screenshots was addressed with improved logic. This issue is fixed in iOS 14.5 and iPadOS 14.5. A user's password may be visible on screen.
Timeline
ID reserved
By apple
- 9 months later
· 9 months later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.50% · top 57% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
- A user's password may be visible on screen
- CWE-312 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-312 and its CVEs
Affected products
- affected unspecified – < 14.5
References (1)
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212317 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2021-1865)Record last updated .