A parsing issue in the handling of directory paths was addressed with improved path validation. This issue is fixed in macOS Big Sur 11.3, iOS 14.5 and iPadOS 14.5, watchOS 7.4, tvOS 14.5. A local user may be able to modify protected parts of the file system.

Related CVEs

CVE-2021-1815

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-vx92-qgjq-h8fv

Published

May 24, 2022 7:13 PM

Last Modified

October 18, 2022 7:00 PM

CVSS Score

5.0 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Unknown

Primary Package

Unknown

GitHub Reviewed

✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: September 14, 2025 6:31 AM

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