About the security content of iOS 14.4 and iPadOS 14.4

This document describes the security content of iOS 14.4 and iPadOS 14.4.

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iOS 14.4 and iPadOS 14.4

Released: 26 January 2021

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 remote attacker may be able to cause a denial of service

Description: this issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2021-1761: Cees Elzinga

Entry added: 1 February 2021; updated: 28 May 2021

APFS

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 user may be able to read arbitrary files

Description: the issue was addressed with improved permissions logic.

CVE-2021-1797: Thomas Tempelmann

Entry added: 1 February 2021; updated: 28 May 2021

Bluetooth

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: an out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2021-1794: Jianjun Dai of 360 Alpha Lab

Entry added: 1 February 2021; updated: 28 May 2021

Bluetooth

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: an out-of-bounds write was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2021-1795: Jianjun Dai of 360 Alpha Lab

CVE-2021-1796: Jianjun Dai of 360 Alpha Lab

Entry added: 1 February 2021; updated: 28 May 2021

Bluetooth

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 in a privileged position may be able to perform a denial-of-service attack

Description: A memory initialisation issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2021-1780: Jianjun Dai of 360 Alpha Lab

Entry added: 1 February 2021; updated: 28 May 2021

CoreAnimation

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 could execute arbitrary code, which could lead to user information being compromised

Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2021-1760: @S0rryMybad of 360 Vulcan Team

Entry added: 1 February 2021; updated: 28 May 2021

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 maliciously crafted web content may lead to code execution

Description: an out-of-bounds write was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2021-1747: JunDong Xie of Ant Security Light-Year Lab

Entry added: 1 February 2021; updated: 28 May 2021

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: processing a maliciously crafted font file may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: an out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2021-1776: Ivan Fratric of Google Project Zero

Entry added: 1 February 2021; updated: 28 May 2021

CoreMedia

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 read was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2021-1759: Hou JingYi (@hjy79425575) of Qihoo 360 CERT

Entry added: 1 February 2021; updated: 28 May 2021

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 text file may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: a stack overflow was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2021-1772: Mickey Jin of Trend Micro (working with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative)

Entry added: 1 February 2021; updated: 28 May 2021

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: A remote attacker may be able to cause arbitrary code execution

Description: an out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2021-1792: Mickey Jin and Junzhi Lu of Trend Micro (working with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative)

Entry added: 1 February 2021; updated: 28 May 2021

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 local user may be able to create or modify system files.

Description: a logic issue was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2021-1786: Csaba Fitzl (@theevilbit) of Offensive Security

Entry added: 1 February 2021; updated: 28 May 2021

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 local attacker may be able to elevate their privileges

Description: multiple issues were addressed with improved logic.

CVE-2021-1787: James Hutchins

Entry added: 1 February 2021; updated: 28 May 2021

FairPlay

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 disclose kernel memory

Description: an out-of-bounds read issue existed that led to the disclosure of kernel memory. This was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2021-1791: Junzhi Lu (@pwn0rz), Qi Sun and Mickey Jin of Trend Micro (working with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative)

Entry added: 1 February 2021; updated: 28 May 2021

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: A remote attacker may be able to cause arbitrary code execution

Description: an out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2021-1758: Peter Nguyen of STAR Labs

Entry added: 1 February 2021; updated: 28 May 2021

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 a denial of service

Description: a logic issue was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2021-1773: Xingwei Lin of Ant Security Light-Year Lab

Entry added: 1 February 2021; updated: 28 May 2021

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 a denial of service

Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2021-1766: Danny Rosseau of Carve Systems

Entry added: 1 February 2021; updated: 28 May 2021

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: an out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2021-1785: Xingwei Lin of Ant Security Light-Year Lab

Entry added: 1 February 2021; updated: 28 May 2021

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: an out-of-bounds write was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2021-1737: Xingwei Lin of Ant Security Light-Year Lab

CVE-2021-1738: Lei Sun

CVE-2021-1744: Xingwei Lin of Ant Security Light-Year Lab

Entry added: 1 February 2021; updated: 28 May 2021

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: a remote attacker may be able to cause unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

Description: a logic issue was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2021-1818: Xingwei Lin of Ant-Financial Light-Year Security Lab

Entry added: 1 February 2021; updated: 28 May 2021

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-2021-1838: Mickey Jin and Qi Sun of Trend Micro (working with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative)

CVE-2021-1742: Xingwei Lin of Ant Security Light-Year Lab

CVE-2021-1746: Xingwei Lin of Ant Security Light-Year Lab, Mickey Jin and Qi Sun of Trend Micro (working with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative) and Jeonghoon Shin (@singi21a) of THEORI

CVE-2021-1754: Xingwei Lin of Ant Security Light-Year Lab

CVE-2021-1774: Xingwei Lin of Ant Security Light-Year Lab

CVE-2021-1793: Xingwei Lin of Ant Security Light-Year Lab

Entry added: 1 February 2021; updated: 28 May 2021

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: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2021-1741: Xingwei Lin of Ant Security Light-Year Lab

CVE-2021-1743: Mickey Jin and Junzhi Lu of Trend Micro (working with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative) and Xingwei Lin of Ant Security Light-Year Lab

Entry added: 1 February 2021; updated: 28 May 2021

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 a denial of service

Description: an out-of-bounds read issue existed in the cURL. This issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2021-1778: Xingwei Lin of Ant Security Light-Year Lab

Entry added: 1 February 2021; updated: 28 May 2021

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: an access issue was addressed with improved memory management.

CVE-2021-1783: Xingwei Lin of Ant Security Light-Year Lab

Entry added: 1 February 2021; updated: 28 May 2021

IOSkywalkFamily

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 elevate their privileges

Description: an out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2021-1757: Proteas and Pan ZhenPeng (@Peterpan0927) of Alibaba Security

Entry added: 1 February 2021; updated: 28 May 2021

iTunes Store

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 URL may lead to arbitrary JavaScript code execution.

Description: a validation issue was addressed with improved input sanitisation.

CVE-2021-1748: CodeColorist (working with Ant Security Light-Year Lab)

Entry added: 1 February 2021; updated: 28 May 2021

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 remote attacker may be able to cause a denial of service

Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management.

CVE-2021-1764: @m00nbsd

Entry added: 1 February 2021; updated: 28 May 2021

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 application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

Description: multiple issues were addressed with improved logic.

CVE-2021-1750: @0xalsr

Entry added: 1 February 2021; updated: 28 May 2021

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 application may be able to elevate privileges. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited.

Description: a race condition was addressed with improved locking.

CVE-2021-1782: an anonymous researcher

Entry updated: 28 May 2021

Messages

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 leak sensitive user information

Description: a privacy issue existed in the handling of Contact cards. This was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2021-1781: Csaba Fitzl (@theevilbit) of Offensive Security

Entry added: 1 February 2021; updated: 28 May 2021

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 USD file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

Description: A buffer overflow was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2021-1763: Mickey Jin of Trend Micro (working with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative)

Entry added: 1 February 2021; updated: 28 May 2021

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 USD file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

Description: an out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2021-1768: Mickey Jin and Junzhi Lu of Trend Micro (working with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative)

Entry added: 1 February 2021; updated: 28 May 2021

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 USD file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

Description: an out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2021-1745: Mickey Jin and Junzhi Lu of Trend Micro (working with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative)

Entry added: 1 February 2021; updated: 28 May 2021

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 USD file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

Description: an out-of-bounds write was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2021-1762: Mickey Jin of Trend Micro

Entry added: 1 February 2021; updated: 28 May 2021

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 USD file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

Description: an out-of-bounds write was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2021-1762: Mickey Jin of Trend Micro (working with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative)

Entry added: 1 February 2021; updated: 28 May 2021

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 heap corruption.

Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2021-1767: Mickey Jin and Junzhi Lu of Trend Micro (working with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative)

Entry added: 1 February 2021; updated: 28 May 2021

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 read was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2021-1753: Mickey Jin of Trend Micro

Entry added: 1 February 2021; updated: 28 May 2021

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 read was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2021-1753: Mickey Jin of Trend Micro (working with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative)

Entry added: 1 February 2021; updated: 28 May 2021

Phone Keypad

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 with physical access to a device may be able to see private contact information

Description: a lock screen issue allowed access to contacts on a locked device. This issue was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2021-1756: Ryan Pickren (ryanpickren.com)

Entry added: 1 February 2021; updated: 28 May 2021

Swift

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 validation.

CVE-2021-1769: CodeColorist of Ant-Financial Light-Year Lab

Entry added: 1 February 2021; updated: 28 May 2021

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-2021-1788: Francisco Alonso (@revskills)

Entry added: 1 February 2021; updated: 28 May 2021

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-2021-1789: @S0rryMybad of 360 Vulcan Team

Entry added: 1 February 2021; updated: 28 May 2021

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: maliciously crafted web content may violate iframe sandboxing policy.

Description: this issue was addressed with improved iframe sandbox enforcement.

CVE-2021-1801: Eliya Stein of Confiant

Entry added: 1 February 2021; updated: 28 May 2021

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: A remote attacker may be able to cause arbitrary code execution. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited.

Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved restrictions.

CVE-2021-1871: an anonymous researcher

CVE-2021-1870: an anonymous researcher

Entry updated: 28 May 2021

WebRTC

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 website may be able to access restricted ports on arbitrary servers

Description: a port redirection issue was addressed with additional port validation.

CVE-2021-1799: Gregory Vishnepolsky and Ben Seri of Armis Security, and Samy Kamkar

Entry added: 1 February 2021; updated: 28 May 2021

XNU

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 execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

Description: a type confusion issue was addressed with improved state handling.

CVE-2021-30869: Apple

Entry added 23 September 2021

Additional recognition

iTunes Store

We would like to acknowledge CodeColorist of Ant-Financial Light-Year Lab for their assistance.

Entry added 01 February 2021

Kernel

We would like to acknowledge Junzhi Lu (@pwn0rz), Mickey Jin and Jesse Change of Trend Micro for their assistance.

Entry added 01 February 2021

libpthread

We would like to acknowledge CodeColorist of Ant-Financial Light-Year Lab for their assistance.

Entry added 01 February 2021

Mail

We would like to acknowledge Yiğit Can Yilmaz (@yilmazcanyigit) and an anonymous researcher for their assistance.

Entry added 01 February 2021

Store Demo

We would like to acknowledge @08Tc3wBB for their assistance.

Entry added 01 February 2021

WebRTC

We would like to acknowledge Philipp Hancke for their assistance.

Entry added 01 February 2021

Wi-Fi

We would like to acknowledge an anonymous researcher for their assistance.

Entry added 01 February 2021

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