CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-30977
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-08-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-120
Description
A buffer overflow was addressed with improved bounds checking. This issue is fixed in macOS Monterey 12.1, Security Update 2021-008 Catalina, macOS Big Sur 11.6.2. A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.
Affected configurations
• apple mac os x (>= 10.15 < 10.15.7)
• apple mac os x 10.15.7
• apple macos (>= 11.0 < 11.6.2)
• apple macos (>= 12.0 < 12.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input weakness
References
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212978 support.apple.com
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212979 support.apple.com
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212981 support.apple.com
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213183 support.apple.com
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212978 support.apple.com
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212979 support.apple.com
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212981 support.apple.com
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213183 support.apple.com