Apple has addressed three zero-day vulnerabilities in iOS that have been exploited in the wild with the release of security updates (iOS 14.4).
The first zero-day issue, tracked as CVE-2021-1782, is a race condition that resides in the iOS operating system kernel.
“A malicious application may be able to elevate privileges. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited.” reads the advisory. “A race condition was addressed with improved locking.”