Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Aug 24, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2021-30855
CVE-2021-30855
Description
A validation issue existed in the handling of symlinks. This issue was addressed with improved validation of symlinks. This issue is fixed in Security Update 2021-005 Catalina, iOS 14.8 and iPadOS 14.8, iOS 15 and iPadOS 15, watchOS 8, macOS Big Sur 11.6. An application may be able to access restricted files.
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Affected products
19- Range: 14.8, 15
11.6+ 2 more
- (no CPE)range: 11.6
- cpe:2.3:o:apple:macos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <11.6
- (no CPE)range: unspecified
14.8, 15+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: 14.8, 15
- cpe:2.3:o:apple:ipados:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <14.8
8+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: 8
- cpe:2.3:o:apple:watchos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <8.0
- Range: Security Update 2021-005
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 7 more
- cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <10.15.7
- cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.15.7:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.15.7:security_update_2020-001:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.15.7:security_update_2021-001:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.15.7:security_update_2021-002:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.15.7:security_update_2021-003:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.15.7:security_update_2021-004:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.15.7:supplemental_update:*:*:*:*:*:*
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