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CVE-2021-1883
This issue was addressed with improved checks. This issue is fixed in Security Update 2021-004 Mojave, iOS 14.5 and iPadOS 14.5, watchOS…
Medium5.5EPSS 2.0%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- apple
Description
This issue was addressed with improved checks. This issue is fixed in Security Update 2021-004 Mojave, iOS 14.5 and iPadOS 14.5, watchOS 7.4, Security Update 2021-003 Catalina, tvOS 14.5, macOS Big Sur 11.3. Processing maliciously crafted server messages may lead to heap corruption.
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 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.0% · top 19% 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 5.5.
Weakness
- Processing maliciously crafted server messages may lead to heap corruption
- CWE-787 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-787 and its CVEs
Affected products
References (6)
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212317 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212323 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212324 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212530 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212325 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212531 (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-2021-1883)Record last updated .