How severe is CVE-2021-1789?

CVE-2021-1789 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 8.8 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 14.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2021-1789: Apple Multiple Products Type Confusion Vulnerability

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Apple Multiple Products Type Confusion Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2022-05-04

Remediation due

2022-05-25

Required action
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CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-1789

Description

A type confusion issue was addressed with improved state handling. This issue is fixed in macOS Big Sur 11.2, Security Update 2021-001 Catalina, Security Update 2021-001 Mojave, tvOS 14.4, watchOS 7.3, iOS 14.4 and iPadOS 14.4, Safari 14.0.3. Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA8.8 HIGH

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

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableno

Technical impacttotal

Exploitation Context

as of October 14, 2026

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CISA added CVE-2021-1789 to the KEV catalog 397 days after its CVE record was published.
It is one of 95 Apple entries in the CISA KEV catalog, and one of 26 added in 2022.
Its current EPSS score (14.0%) is higher than that of 30% of CISA KEV entries.

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
Apple	Apple iOS and iPadOS	unspecified to <14.4
Apple	Apple macOS	unspecified to <11.2
Apple	Apple macOS	unspecified to <7.3
Apple	Apple macOS	unspecified to <14.4
Apple	Apple macOS	unspecified to <14.0

References

8 Links

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Other references

Record Details

Published

2021-04-02

Last updated

2025-10-21

Assigner (CNA)

apple

Credited to

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