CVE-2021-1782

CRITICALNVD 7.09.0
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

“▲” beside the score: it is higher than NVD's CVSS score.

Score elevated to 9.0 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2021-11-03), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 7.0 retained for reference. The 9.0 is the floor for confirmed exploitation, not an impact rating: this CVE's impact severity (EG Severity) is CVSS 7.0 HIGH under GitHub Security Advisory CVSS. Confidence: HIGH.

Triggered by: CISA KEV (actively exploited)
Sources: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 3 sources updated this weekExploited in the wild
9.0EG
EchelonGraph verdictPatch nowTreat as an emergency — this is being exploited.
  • Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV) — the reason this is sooner than the SSVC decision on this page at low or medium mission impact
CISA-KEV: ExploitedEPSS PROB: 2.2%CVSS: 7.0Exploit: Public PoCExposed services: Not assessed

The CVE record names the fixed release — apply it.

A race condition was addressed with improved locking. This issue is fixed in macOS Big Sur 11.2, Security Update 2021-001 Catalina, Security Update 2021-001 Mojave, watchOS 7.3, tvOS 14.4, iOS 14.4 and iPadOS 14.4. A malicious application may be able to elevate privileges. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited..

CVSS v3
7.0
EG Score
9.0CRITICALhigh confidence
EG Risk
72
EG Risk 72/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity70% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 7.0 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation100% × 40%
Fixed at 100% for a CISA KEV listing: EchelonGraph's rule.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.
Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: The CVE record names the fixed release. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low, sooner than that at medium and as soon as possible at high mission impact.
EPSS PROB
2.2%
EPSS %ILE
82nd
KEV
⚠ Exploited

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.0): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.0 is the CISA KEV floor for confirmed exploitation, not an impact rating: its impact severity (EG Severity) is CVSS 7.0 HIGH.

EG Severity
7.0 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
2.2% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-19). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
CISA KEV and EG-KEV Tier 1 (exploited in the wild)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Attend at medium mission impactTrack at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.

The CVE record names the fixed release. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low, sooner than that at medium and as soon as possible at high mission impact.

Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.

In CISA KEV yes (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

CISA required action“Apply updates per vendor instructions.”

Quoted verbatim from CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. CISA directs it at US federal civilian executive branch agencies under Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04, which replaced BOD 22-01 on 10 June 2026; it is not EchelonGraph's advice. CISA's notes: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-1782

Published

April 2, 2021

Last Modified

October 23, 2025

Advisory Details (5)

Auto-updated Oct 20, 2026
⚠️ Actively exploited (CISA KEV, CISA Vulnrichment). Fix named in the CVE record. Sources: cisa.
CISA🔴 Active Exploitation

Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA

Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA. Listed in CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2021-1782
Web page

About the security content of tvOS 14.4 - Apple Support

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212149
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About the security content of watchOS 7.3 - Apple Support

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212148
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About the security content of macOS Big Sur 11.2, Security Update 2021-001 Catalina, Security Update 2021-001 Mojave - Apple Support

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212147
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About the security content of iOS 14.4 and iPadOS 14.4 - Apple Support

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212146

Weakness Classification(2)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 21× in last 7d / 197× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 99 of 1,061 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 1 repeat row among the latest 100 is merged into the row it repeats. The 962 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-20 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.2% · 82nd percentile
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  3. 2026-10-20 11:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-22jf-974v-hf7j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.0
  4. 2026-10-19 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.2% · 82nd percentile
  5. 2026-10-19 10:55 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-19 10:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-22jf-974v-hf7j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.0
  7. 2026-10-18 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.2% · 82nd percentile
  8. 2026-10-18 10:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-22jf-974v-hf7j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.0
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  10. 2026-10-17 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.2% · 82nd percentile
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  12. 2026-10-17 10:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-22jf-974v-hf7j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.0
  13. 2026-10-16 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.2% · 82nd percentile
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  15. 2026-10-16 09:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-22jf-974v-hf7j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.0
  16. 2026-10-15 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.2% · 82nd percentile
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  18. 2026-10-15 09:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-22jf-974v-hf7j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.0
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  21. 2026-10-14 08:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-22jf-974v-hf7j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.0
  22. 2026-10-13 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.2% · 82nd percentile
  23. 2026-10-13 08:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-22jf-974v-hf7j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.0
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  1. 2026-10-12 07:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-22jf-974v-hf7j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.0
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  9. 2026-10-11 13:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.2% · 82nd percentile
  10. 2026-10-11 09:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-22jf-974v-hf7j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.0
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  15. 2026-10-10 19:56 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.2% · 82nd percentile
  16. 2026-10-10 16:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-22jf-974v-hf7j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.0
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  21. 2026-10-09 23:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-22jf-974v-hf7j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.0
  22. 2026-10-09 20:04 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.2% · 82nd percentile
  23. 2026-10-09 18:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-22jf-974v-hf7j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.0
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  30. 2026-10-08 16:39 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.2% · 82nd percentile
  31. 2026-10-08 16:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-22jf-974v-hf7j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.0
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  37. 2026-10-07 23:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-22jf-974v-hf7j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.0
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  47. 2026-10-06 12:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-22jf-974v-hf7j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.0
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  54. 2026-10-05 14:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-22jf-974v-hf7j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.0
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  58. 2026-10-05 01:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-22jf-974v-hf7j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.0
  59. 2026-10-04 23:18 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.2% · 82nd percentile
  60. 2026-10-04 21:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-22jf-974v-hf7j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.0
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  70. 2026-10-03 10:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-22jf-974v-hf7j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.0
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Publicly available exploits

(1 reference)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 GitHub PoC). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.

Frequently asked(6)

What is CVE-2021-1782?
CVE-2021-1782 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on April 2, 2021. A race condition was addressed with improved locking. This issue is fixed in macOS Big Sur 11.2, Security Update 2021-001 Catalina, Security Update 2021-001 Mojave, watchOS 7.3, tvOS 14.4, iOS 14.4 and iPadOS 14.4. A malicious application may be able to elevate privileges. Apple is aware of a…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2021-1782 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2021-1782 was published on April 2, 2021. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of October 23, 2025; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2021-1782 actively exploited?
Yes. CISA added CVE-2021-1782 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on November 3, 2021, affecting Apple Multiple Products. KEV listing indicates confirmed exploitation in the wild; this CVE warrants immediate attention. The CVE record names the fixed release. Apply it.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2021-1782?
CVE-2021-1782 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.0 (NVD). EchelonGraph synthesises NVD + CISA KEV + FIRST EPSS + GHSA into a combined EG score of 9.0 (CRITICAL).
Which products are affected by CVE-2021-1782?
CVE-2021-1782 affects Apple Multiple Products.
How do I remediate CVE-2021-1782?
The CVE record for CVE-2021-1782 names the fix: "This issue is fixed in macOS Big Sur 11.2, Security Update 2021-001 Catalina, Security Update 2021-001 Mojave, watchOS 7.3, tvOS 14.4, iOS 14.4 and iPadOS 14.4."

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