CVE-2024-40779

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read

Publication date:

29/07/2024

Last modified:

02/04/2026

Description

An out-of-bounds read 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 content may lead to an unexpected process crash.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

5.50

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os::::::::		16.7.9 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os::::::::	17.0 (including)	17.6 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:apple:ipados::::::::		16.7.9 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:apple:ipados::::::::	17.0 (including)	17.6 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:apple:safari::::::::		17.6 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:apple:watchos::::::::		10.6 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:apple:tvos::::::::		17.6 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:apple:visionos::::::::		1.3 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:apple:macos::::::::		14.6 (excluding)

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CVE-2024-40779

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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