Known exploited vulnerability

CVE-2021-31010

Apple iOS, macOS, watchOS Sandbox Bypass Vulnerability

What is affected

Vendor Apple
Product iOS, macOS, watchOS
Weakness CWE-20, CWE-502

The vulnerability

In affected versions of Apple iOS, macOS, and watchOS, a sandboxed process may be able to circumvent sandbox restrictions.

Required action

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

US federal civilian agencies were required to act by 15 September 2022 under BOD 22-01. The deadline is a compliance date, not a measure of severity — it says nothing about how dangerous the flaw is to anyone else.

Where this comes from

Every field on this page is taken from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, last synced 12 Nov 2026, 00:29. Nothing here is our own assessment. For the technical scoring, see the NVD record below.

NVD record ↗ CVE.org record ↗

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