CVE-2021-1740 - Apple Macos, Apple Tvos and Apple watchOS

Moderate 5.5

A parsing issue in the handling of directory paths was addressed with improved path validation. This issue is fixed in Security Update 2021-002 Catalina, iOS 14.5 and iPadOS 14.5, watchOS 7.4, tvOS 14.5, macOS Big Sur 11.3. A local user may be able to modify protected parts of the file system.

Affected software

Apple Macos

Apple Tvos

Apple watchOS

Apple Ipados

Apple Mac OS X

Apple iPhone OS

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