How severe is CVE-2021-30713?

CVE-2021-30713 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.8 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 7.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2021-30713: Apple macOS Unspecified

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Apple macOS Unspecified Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2021-11-03

Remediation due

2021-11-17

Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-30713

Description

A permissions issue was addressed with improved validation. This issue is fixed in macOS Big Sur 11.4. A malicious application may be able to bypass Privacy preferences. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited..

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA7.8 HIGH

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

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableno

Technical impacttotal

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
Apple	macOS	unspecified to <11.4

References

3 Links

Mailing lists

20210921 APPLE-SA-2021-09-20-8 Additional information for APPLE-SA-2021-09-13-4 Security Update 2021-005 Catalina

Other references

Record Details

Published

2021-09-08

Last updated

2025-10-21

Assigner (CNA)

apple

Credited to

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