Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-1829

Critical

Published: 08 September 2021

Published
08 September 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0084 75.2th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-1829 is a critical-severity Type Confusion (CWE-843) vulnerability in Apple Macos. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 24.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A type confusion issue was addressed with improved state handling. This issue is fixed in macOS Big Sur 11.3. An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.

CWE(s)
CWE-843

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

apple
macos
11.0 — 11.3

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

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