Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-40789

Medium

Published: 29 July 2024

Published
29 July 2024
Modified
02 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0103 77.7th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-40789 is a medium-severity Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125) vulnerability in Apple Ipados. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 22.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

An out-of-bounds access issue was addressed with improved bounds checking. This issue is fixed in Safari 17.6, iOS 16.7.9 and iPadOS 16.7.9, iOS 17.6 and iPadOS 17.6, macOS Sonoma 14.6, tvOS 17.6, visionOS 1.3, watchOS 10.6. Processing maliciously crafted web…

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content may lead to an unexpected process crash.

CWE(s)
NVD-CWE-noinfoCWE-125

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

apple
safari
≤ 17.6
apple
ipados
≤ 16.7.9 · 17.0 — 17.6
apple
iphone os
≤ 16.7.9 · 17.0 — 17.6
apple
macos
≤ 14.6
apple
tvos
≤ 17.6
apple
visionos
≤ 1.3
apple
watchos
≤ 10.6

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References