Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-27823

Medium

Published: 29 July 2024

Published
29 July 2024
Modified
02 April 2026
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0019 40.1th percentile
Risk Priority 12 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-27823 is a medium-severity Race Condition (CWE-362) vulnerability in Apple Macos. Its CVSS base score is 5.9 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 40.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A race condition was addressed with improved locking. This issue is fixed in iOS 16.7.8 and iPadOS 16.7.8, iOS 17.5 and iPadOS 17.5, macOS Monterey 12.7.5, macOS Sonoma 14.5, macOS Ventura 13.6.7, tvOS 17.5, visionOS 1.3, watchOS 10.5. An attacker…

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in a privileged network position may be able to spoof network packets.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

apple
ipados
≤ 16.7.8 · 17.0 — 17.5
apple
iphone os
≤ 16.7.8 · 17.0 — 17.5
apple
macos
≤ 12.7.5 · 13.0 — 13.6.7 · 14.0 — 14.5
apple
tvos
≤ 17.5
apple
visionos
≤ 1.3
apple
watchos
≤ 10.5

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-362

Accurate timestamps from internal clocks enable detection of race conditions by providing reliable event ordering in audit logs.

addresses: CWE-362

Coordination of concurrent security activities reduces the probability that shared resources will be accessed simultaneously without proper synchronization.

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