Coverage › CVE-2021-1879
CVE-2021-1879 Unmapped
Apple iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS WebKit Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability
- Vendor / product
- Apple — iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS
- Description (CISA)
- Apple iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS WebKit contain an unspecified vulnerability that allows for universal cross-site scripting (XSS) when processing maliciously crafted web content. This vulnerability could impact HTML parsers that use WebKit, including but not limited to Apple Safari and non-Apple products which rely on WebKit for HTML processing.
- Added to KEV
- 2021-11-03
- Due date
- 2021-11-17
- Required action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
- Known ransomware use
- Unknown
- CWE
- CWE-79
- CISA notes
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-1879
- Elsewhere
- cve.org · NVD · CISA KEV · JSON
ATT&CK techniques
No public source states how this vulnerability is exploited in ATT&CK terms.
The only authoritative CVE → ATT&CK mapping in the open — CTID's Mappings Explorer, pinned to a KEV snapshot of 2025-07-28 and ATT&CK 16.1 — does not include CVE-2021-1879. CISA's catalogue carries no technique field. kevmap does not infer techniques from the CWE (CWE-79) — here is why — and does not guess.
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