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CVE-2024-23296

7.8, high Known exploited

Apple Multiple Products Memory Corruption Vulnerability

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CVSS
7.8, high high CVSS v3.1
EPSS, next 30 days
1% higher than 72.2% of scored CVEs
Exploitation
Confirmed in the wild
Published
5 Mar 20242 years ago

Known exploited

CISA added this to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog on 6 Mar 2024. US federal agencies had to remediate by 27 Mar 2024, a deadline that has passed.

Required action. Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Description

A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved validation. This issue is fixed in iOS 16.7.8 and iPadOS 16.7.8, iOS 17.4 and iPadOS 17.4, macOS Monterey 12.7.6, macOS Sonoma 14.4, macOS Ventura 13.6.7, tvOS 17.4, visionOS 1.1, watchOS 10.4. An attacker with arbitrary kernel read and write capability may be able to bypass kernel memory protections. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited.

Details

Vendor
Apple
Product
iOS and iPadOS
Weakness
CWE-787 (opens in a new tab)
Status
Analyzed
Updated
17 Jun 2026
Assigner
product-security@apple.com

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References 26

Exploit code 8

Advisories 17

9 more

Other references 1

The kind is read from NVD's tags where present and from the shape of the URL otherwise, so treat it as a hint.

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  • CVE-2023-43000 Apple Multiple products Use-After-Free Vulnerability KEV EPSS 4% 8.8, high
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Assembled from the NVD 2.0 API, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and FIRST EPSS. Scores are as of our last collection on 17 Oct 2026, not the live upstream state.