CVE-2024-44276
Published: 17 March 2025
Summary
CVE-2024-44276 is a high-severity Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information (CWE-319) vulnerability in Apple Ipados. Its CVSS base score is 7.3 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Network Sniffing (T1040); ranked at the 19.2th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 SC-8 (Transmission Confidentiality and Integrity) and SC-9 (Transmission Confidentiality).
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI
Directly mandates protection of the confidentiality and integrity of sensitive information transmitted over networks, comprehensively mitigating the cleartext transmission vulnerability in this CVE.
Requires protection of transmission confidentiality, directly preventing leakage of sensitive information over the network as exploited by a privileged network position attacker.
Implements cryptographic protections such as HTTPS for network communications, addressing the specific fix applied to resolve this cleartext transmission issue.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
The cleartext transmission of sensitive information (CWE-319) directly enables adversaries in a privileged network position to capture data via network sniffing, as the lack of encryption (fixed by HTTPS) makes traffic readable without additional effort.
NVD Description
This issue was addressed by using HTTPS when sending information over the network. This issue is fixed in iOS 18.2 and iPadOS 18.2. A user in a privileged network position may be able to leak sensitive information.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2024-44276 is a vulnerability involving the cleartext transmission of sensitive information over the network, classified as CWE-319 (Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information). It affects Apple iOS and iPadOS versions prior to 18.2.
The vulnerability has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N). A user in a privileged network position can exploit it over the network with low attack complexity, low privileges required, and user interaction, potentially leaking sensitive information with high confidentiality and integrity impacts.
Apple's advisory states that the issue was addressed in iOS 18.2 and iPadOS 18.2 by using HTTPS when sending information over the network. Additional details are available at https://support.apple.com/en-us/121837.
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