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About the security content of iOS 14.7 and iPadOS 14.7

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# About the security content of iOS 14.7 and iPadOS 14.7 This document describes the security content of iOS 14.7 and iPadOS 14.7. ## About Apple security updates For our customers' protection, Apple doesn't disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches or releases are available. Recent releases are listed on the [Apple security updates](<https://support.apple.com/kb/HT201222>) page. Apple security documents reference vulnerabilities by [CVE-ID](<http://cve.mitre.org/about/>) when possible. For more information about security, see the [Apple Product Security](<https://support.apple.com/kb/HT201220>) page. ## iOS 14.7 and iPadOS 14.7 iOS 14.7 released July 19, 2021; iPadOS 14.7 released July 21, 2021 **ActionKit** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: A shortcut may be able to bypass Internet permission requirements Description: An input validation issue was addressed with improved input validation. CVE-2021-30763: Zachary Keffaber (@QuickUpdate5) **Analytics** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: A local attacker may be able to access analytics data Description: This issue was addressed with a new entitlement. CVE-2021-30871: Denis Tokarev (@illusionofcha0s) Entry added October 25, 2021 **Audio** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: A local attacker may be able to cause unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks. CVE-2021-30781: tr3e **AVEVideoEncoder** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management. CVE-2021-30748: George Nosenko **CoreAudio** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted audio file may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management. CVE-2021-30775: JunDong Xie of Ant Security Light-Year Lab **CoreAudio** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: Playing a malicious audio file may lead to an unexpected application termination Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved validation. CVE-2021-30776: JunDong Xie of Ant Security Light-Year Lab **CoreGraphics** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: Opening a maliciously crafted PDF file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution Description: A race condition was addressed with improved state handling. CVE-2021-30786: ryuzaki **CoreText** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted font file may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation. CVE-2021-30789: Mickey Jin (@patch1t) of Trend Micro, Sunglin of Knownsec 404 team **Crash Reporter** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: A malicious application may be able to gain root privileges Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved validation. CVE-2021-30774: Yizhuo Wang of Group of Software Security In Progress (G.O.S.S.I.P) at Shanghai Jiao Tong University **CVMS** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: A malicious application may be able to gain root privileges Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking. CVE-2021-30780: Tim Michaud(@TimGMichaud) of Zoom Video Communications **dyld** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: A sandboxed process may be able to circumvent sandbox restrictions Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved validation. CVE-2021-30768: Linus Henze (pinauten.de) **Find My** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: A malicious application may be able to access Find My data Description: A permissions issue was addressed with improved validation. CVE-2021-30804: Csaba Fitzl (@theevilbit) of Offensive Security **FontParser** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted font file may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: An integer overflow was addressed through improved input validation. CVE-2021-30760: Sunglin of Knownsec 404 team **FontParser** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted tiff file may lead to a denial-of-service or potentially disclose memory contents Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks. CVE-2021-30788: tr3e working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative **FontParser** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted font file may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: A stack overflow was addressed with improved input validation. CVE-2021-30759: hjy79425575 working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative **Identity Service** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: A malicious application may be able to bypass code signing checks Description: An issue in code signature validation was addressed with improved checks. CVE-2021-30773: Linus Henze (pinauten.de) **Image Processing** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management. CVE-2021-30802: Matthew Denton of Google Chrome Security **ImageIO** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks. CVE-2021-30779: Jzhu, Ye Zhang(@co0py_Cat) of Baidu Security **ImageIO** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: A buffer overflow was addressed with improved bounds checking. CVE-2021-30785: CFF of Topsec Alpha Team, Mickey Jin (@patch1t) of Trend Micro **Kernel** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: A malicious attacker with arbitrary read and write capability may be able to bypass Pointer Authentication Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management. CVE-2021-30769: Linus Henze (pinauten.de) **Kernel** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: An attacker that has already achieved kernel code execution may be able to bypass kernel memory mitigations Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved validation. CVE-2021-30770: Linus Henze (pinauten.de) **libxml2** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause arbitrary code execution Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks. CVE-2021-3518 **Measure** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: Multiple issues in libwebp Description: Multiple issues were addressed by updating to version 1.2.0. CVE-2018-25010 CVE-2018-25011 CVE-2018-25014 CVE-2020-36328 CVE-2020-36329 CVE-2020-36330 CVE-2020-36331 **Model I/O** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to a denial of service Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved validation. CVE-2021-30796: Mickey Jin (@patch1t) of Trend Micro **Model I/O** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: An out-of-bounds write was addressed with improved input validation. CVE-2021-30792: Anonymous working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative **Model I/O** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted file may disclose user information Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking. CVE-2021-30791: Anonymous working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative **TCC** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: A malicious application may be able to bypass certain Privacy preferences Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management. CVE-2021-30798: Mickey Jin (@patch1t) of Trend Micro **WebKit** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: A type confusion issue was addressed with improved state handling. CVE-2021-30758: Christoph Guttandin of Media Codings **WebKit** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management. CVE-2021-30795: Sergei Glazunov of Google Project Zero **WebKit** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to code execution Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks. CVE-2021-30797: Ivan Fratric of Google Project Zero **WebKit** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed with improved memory handling. CVE-2021-30799: Sergei Glazunov of Google Project Zero **Wi-Fi** Available for: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation) Impact: Joining a malicious Wi-Fi network may result in a denial of service or arbitrary code execution Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks. CVE-2021-30800: vm_call, Nozhdar Abdulkhaleq Shukri ## Additional recognition **Assets** We would like to acknowledge Cees Elzinga for their assistance. **CoreText** We would like to acknowledge Mickey Jin (@patch1t) of Trend Micro for their assistance. **Safari** We would like to acknowledge an anonymous researcher for their assistance. **Sandbox** We would like to acknowledge Csaba Fitzl (@theevilbit) of Offensive Security for their assistance. Information about products not manufactured by Apple, or independent websites not controlled or tested by Apple, is provided without recommendation or endorsement. Apple assumes no responsibility with regard to the selection, performance, or use of third-party websites or products. Apple makes no representations regarding third-party website accuracy or reliability. [Contact the vendor](<http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2693>) for additional information. Published Date: November 06, 2023


Affected Software


CPE Name Name Version
ipados 14.7

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