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 Vulnerability

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
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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

Exploitation Context

as of October 14, 2026

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CISA added CVE-2021-30713 to the KEV catalog 56 days after its CVE record was published.
It is one of 95 Apple entries in the CISA KEV catalog, and one of 23 added in 2021.
Its current EPSS score (7.0%) is higher than that of 21% of CISA KEV entries.

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
Apple	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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