Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-44234

Medium

Published: 01 November 2024

Published
01 November 2024
Modified
02 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0021 42.7th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-44234 is a medium-severity Classic Buffer Overflow (CWE-120) vulnerability in Apple Ipados. Its CVSS base score is 5.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 42.7th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The issue was addressed with improved bounds checks. This issue is fixed in iOS 17.7.1 and iPadOS 17.7.1, iOS 18.1 and iPadOS 18.1, macOS Sequoia 15.1, macOS Sonoma 14.7.1, macOS Ventura 13.7.1, tvOS 18.1, visionOS 2.1, watchOS 11.1. Parsing a…

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maliciously crafted video file may lead to unexpected system termination.

CWE(s)
NVD-CWE-noinfoCWE-120

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

apple
ipados
18.0 · ≤ 17.7.1
apple
iphone os
18.0 · ≤ 17.7.1
apple
macos
≤ 13.7.1 · 14.0 — 14.7.1
apple
tvos
≤ 18.1
apple
visionos
≤ 2.1
apple
watchos
≤ 11.1

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.

SC-27 Platform-independent Applications
addresses: CWE-120

Platform-independent managed code eliminates the need for unchecked native buffer copies that are the root cause of classic buffer overflows.

References