Use-After-Free Issue in Apple Products
CVE-2024-54499

8.1HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor
Apple
Status
TV OS
Visionos
Mac OS
Watch OS
Vendor
CVE Published:
27 January 2025

Summary

A use-after-free vulnerability has been identified in certain Apple operating systems, allowing for potential arbitrary code execution via the processing of specially crafted images. This issue has been mitigated through improved memory management techniques, with patches provided in the latest versions of visionOS, tvOS, watchOS, iOS, iPadOS, and macOS Sequoia.

Affected Version(s)

iOS and iPadOS < 18.2

macOS < 15.2

tvOS < 18.2

References

https://support.apple.com/en-us/121844
https://support.apple.com/en-us/121845
https://support.apple.com/en-us/121839

CVSS V3.1

Score:
8.1
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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