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iOS 17.4 and iPadOS 17.4
Released March 5, 2024
Accessibility
Available for: iPhone XS and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 2nd generation and later, iPad Pro 10.5-inch, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 6th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later
Impact: An app may be able to read sensitive location information
Description: A privacy issue was addressed with improved private data redaction for log entries.
CVE-2024-23243: Cristian Dinca of "Tudor Vianu" National High School of Computer Science, Romania
Accessibility
Available for: iPhone XS and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 2nd generation and later, iPad Pro 10.5-inch, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 6th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later
Impact: An app may be able to spoof system notifications and UI
Description: This issue was addressed with additional entitlement checks.
CVE-2024-23262: Guilherme Rambo of Best Buddy Apps (rambo.codes)
Entry added March 7, 2024
Accessibility
Available for: iPhone XS and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 2nd generation and later, iPad Pro 10.5-inch, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 6th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later
Impact: A malicious app may be able to observe user data in log entries related to accessibility notifications
Description: A privacy issue was addressed with improved private data redaction for log entries.
CVE-2024-23291
Entry added March 7, 2024
AppleMobileFileIntegrity
Available for: iPhone XS and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 2nd generation and later, iPad Pro 10.5-inch, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 6th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later
Impact: An app may be able to elevate privileges
Description: This issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code.
CVE-2024-23288: Wojciech Regula of SecuRing (wojciechregula.blog) and Kirin (@Pwnrin)
Entry added March 7, 2024
Bluetooth
Available for: iPhone XS and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 2nd generation and later, iPad Pro 10.5-inch, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 6th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later
Impact: An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to inject keystrokes by spoofing a keyboard
Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2024-23277: Marc Newlin of SkySafe
Entry added March 7, 2024
CoreBluetooth - LE
Available for: iPhone XS and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 2nd generation and later, iPad Pro 10.5-inch, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 6th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later
Impact: An app may be able to access Bluetooth-connected microphones without user permission
Description: An access issue was addressed with improved access restrictions.
CVE-2024-23250: Guilherme Rambo of Best Buddy Apps (rambo.codes)
Entry added March 7, 2024
ExtensionKit
Available for: iPhone XS and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 2nd generation and later, iPad Pro 10.5-inch, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 6th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later
Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data
Description: A privacy issue was addressed with improved private data redaction for log entries.
CVE-2024-23205
Entry added March 7, 2024
file
Available for: iPhone XS and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 2nd generation and later, iPad Pro 10.5-inch, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 6th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later
Impact: Processing a file may lead to a denial-of-service or potentially disclose memory contents
Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2022-48554
Entry added March 7, 2024
Image Processing
Available for: iPhone XS and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 2nd generation and later, iPad Pro 10.5-inch, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 6th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later
Impact: An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2024-23270: an anonymous researcher
Entry added March 7, 2024
ImageIO
Available for: iPhone XS and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 2nd generation and later, iPad Pro 10.5-inch, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 6th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later
Impact: Processing an image may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: A buffer overflow issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2024-23286: Dohyun Lee (@l33d0hyun)
Entry added March 7, 2024
Kernel
Available for: iPhone XS and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 2nd generation and later, iPad Pro 10.5-inch, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 6th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later
Impact: 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.
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved validation.
CVE-2024-23225
Kernel
Available for: iPhone XS and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 2nd generation and later, iPad Pro 10.5-inch, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 6th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later
Impact: An app may be able to access user-sensitive data
Description: A race condition was addressed with additional validation.
CVE-2024-23235
Entry added March 7, 2024
Kernel
Available for: iPhone XS and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 2nd generation and later, iPad Pro 10.5-inch, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 6th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later
Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or write kernel memory
Description: A memory corruption vulnerability was addressed with improved locking.
CVE-2024-23265: Xinru Chi of Pangu Lab
Entry added March 7, 2024
libxpc
Available for: iPhone XS and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 2nd generation and later, iPad Pro 10.5-inch, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 6th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later
Impact: An app may be able to break out of its sandbox
Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2024-23278: an anonymous researcher
Entry added March 7, 2024
libxpc
Available for: iPhone XS and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 2nd generation and later, iPad Pro 10.5-inch, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 6th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later
Impact: An app may be able to execute arbitrary code out of its sandbox or with certain elevated privileges
Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2024-0258: ali yabuz
Entry added March 7, 2024
MediaRemote
Available for: iPhone XS and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 2nd generation and later, iPad Pro 10.5-inch, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 6th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later
Impact: A malicious application may be able to access private information
Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2024-23297: scj643
Entry added March 7, 2024
Messages
Available for: iPhone XS and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 2nd generation and later, iPad Pro 10.5-inch, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 6th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later
Impact: An app may be able to access user-sensitive data
Description: A privacy issue was addressed with improved handling of temporary files.
CVE-2024-23287: Kirin (@Pwnrin)
Entry added March 7, 2024
Metal
Available for: iPhone XS and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 2nd generation and later, iPad Pro 10.5-inch, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 6th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later
Impact: An application may be able to read restricted memory
Description: A validation issue was addressed with improved input sanitization.
CVE-2024-23264: Meysam Firouzi @R00tkitsmm working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative
Entry added March 7, 2024
Photos
Available for: iPhone XS and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 2nd generation and later, iPad Pro 10.5-inch, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 6th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later
Impact: Shake-to-undo may allow a deleted photo to be re-surfaced without authentication
Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2024-23240: Harsh Tyagi
Entry added March 7, 2024
Photos
Available for: iPhone XS and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 2nd generation and later, iPad Pro 10.5-inch, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 6th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later
Impact: Photos in the Hidden Photos Album may be viewed without authentication
Description: An authentication issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2024-23255: Harsh Tyagi
Entry added March 7, 2024
RTKit
Available for: iPhone XS and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 2nd generation and later, iPad Pro 10.5-inch, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 6th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later
Impact: 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.
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved validation.
CVE-2024-23296
Safari
Available for: iPhone XS and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 2nd generation and later, iPad Pro 10.5-inch, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 6th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later
Impact: An app may be able to fingerprint the user
Description: The issue was addressed with improved handling of caches.
CVE-2024-23220
Entry added March 7, 2024
Safari
Available for: iPhone XS and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 2nd generation and later, iPad Pro 10.5-inch, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 6th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later
Impact: Processing web content may lead to a denial-of-service
Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2024-23259: Lyra Rebane (rebane2001)
Entry added March 7, 2024
Safari Private Browsing
Available for: iPhone XS and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 2nd generation and later, iPad Pro 10.5-inch, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 6th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later
Impact: A user's locked tabs may be briefly visible while switching tab groups when Locked Private Browsing is enabled
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2024-23256: Om Kothawade
Safari Private Browsing
Available for: iPhone XS and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 2nd generation and later, iPad Pro 10.5-inch, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 6th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later
Impact: Private Browsing tabs may be accessed without authentication
Description: This issue was addressed through improved state management.
CVE-2024-23273: Matej Rabzelj
Entry added March 7, 2024
Sandbox
Available for: iPhone XS and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 2nd generation and later, iPad Pro 10.5-inch, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 6th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later
Impact: An app may be able to leak sensitive user information
Description: A race condition was addressed with improved state handling.
CVE-2024-23239: Mickey Jin (@patch1t)
Entry added March 7, 2024
Sandbox
Available for: iPhone XS and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 2nd generation and later, iPad Pro 10.5-inch, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 6th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later
Impact: An app may be able to access user-sensitive data
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved restrictions.
CVE-2024-23290: Wojciech Regula of SecuRing (wojciechregula.blog)
Entry added March 7, 2024
Share Sheet
Available for: iPhone XS and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 2nd generation and later, iPad Pro 10.5-inch, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 6th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later
Impact: An app may be able to access user-sensitive data
Description: A privacy issue was addressed with improved private data redaction for log entries.
CVE-2024-23231: Kirin (@Pwnrin) and luckyu (@uuulucky)
Entry added March 7, 2024
Shortcuts
Available for: iPhone XS and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 2nd generation and later, iPad Pro 10.5-inch, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 6th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later
Impact: An app may be able to access information about a user's contacts
Description: This issue was addressed with improved data protection.
CVE-2024-23292: K宝 and LFY@secsys from Fudan University
Entry added March 7, 2024
Siri
Available for: iPhone XS and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 2nd generation and later, iPad Pro 10.5-inch, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 6th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later
Impact: A person with physical access to a device may be able to use Siri to access private calendar information
Description: A lock screen issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2024-23289: Lewis Hardy
Entry added March 7, 2024
Siri
Available for: iPhone XS and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 2nd generation and later, iPad Pro 10.5-inch, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 6th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later
Impact: An attacker with physical access may be able to use Siri to access sensitive user data
Description: This issue was addressed through improved state management.
CVE-2024-23293: Bistrit Dahal
Entry added March 7, 2024
Spotlight
Available for: iPhone XS and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 2nd generation and later, iPad Pro 10.5-inch, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 6th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later
Impact: An app may be able to leak sensitive user information
Description: This issue was addressed through improved state management.
CVE-2024-23241
Entry added March 7, 2024
Synapse
Available for: iPhone XS and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 2nd generation and later, iPad Pro 10.5-inch, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 6th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later
Impact: An app may be able to view Mail data
Description: A privacy issue was addressed by not logging contents of text fields.
CVE-2024-23242
Entry added March 7, 2024
UIKit
Available for: iPhone XS and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 2nd generation and later, iPad Pro 10.5-inch, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 6th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later
Impact: An app may be able to break out of its sandbox
Description: This issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code.
CVE-2024-23246: Deutsche Telekom Security GmbH sponsored by Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik
Entry added March 7, 2024
WebKit
Available for: iPhone XS and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 2nd generation and later, iPad Pro 10.5-inch, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 6th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later
Impact: Processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
WebKit Bugzilla: 259694
CVE-2024-23226: Pwn2car
Entry added March 7, 2024
WebKit
Available for: iPhone XS and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 2nd generation and later, iPad Pro 10.5-inch, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 6th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later
Impact: A malicious website may exfiltrate audio data cross-origin
Description: The issue was addressed with improved UI handling.
WebKit Bugzilla: 263795
CVE-2024-23254: James Lee (@Windowsrcer)
Entry added March 7, 2024
WebKit
Available for: iPhone XS and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 2nd generation and later, iPad Pro 10.5-inch, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 6th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may prevent Content Security Policy from being enforced
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved validation.
WebKit Bugzilla: 264811
CVE-2024-23263: Johan Carlsson (joaxcar)
Entry added March 7, 2024
WebKit
Available for: iPhone XS and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 2nd generation and later, iPad Pro 10.5-inch, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 6th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later
Impact: A maliciously crafted webpage may be able to fingerprint the user
Description: An injection issue was addressed with improved validation.
WebKit Bugzilla: 266703
CVE-2024-23280: an anonymous researcher
Entry added March 7, 2024
WebKit
Available for: iPhone XS and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 2nd generation and later, iPad Pro 10.5-inch, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 6th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may prevent Content Security Policy from being enforced
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.
WebKit Bugzilla: 267241
CVE-2024-23284: Georg Felber and Marco Squarcina
Entry added March 7, 2024
Additional recognition
AirDrop
We would like to acknowledge Cristian Dinca of "Tudor Vianu" National High School of Computer Science, Romania for their assistance.
CoreAnimation
We would like to acknowledge Junsung Lee for their assistance.
Entry added March 7, 2024
CoreMotion
We would like to acknowledge Eric Dorphy of Twin Cities App Dev LLC for their assistance.
Entry added March 7, 2024
Find My
We would like to acknowledge Meng Zhang (鲸落) of NorthSea for their assistance.
Entry added March 7, 2024
Kernel
We would like to acknowledge Tarek Joumaa (@tjkr0wn) and 이준성(Junsung Lee) for their assistance.
Entry added March 7, 2024
libxml2
We would like to acknowledge OSS-Fuzz, and Ned Williamson of Google Project Zero for their assistance.
Entry added March 7, 2024
libxpc
We would like to acknowledge Rasmus Sten, F-Secure (Mastodon: @pajp@blog.dll.nu), and an anonymous researcher for their assistance.
Entry added March 7, 2024
Mail Conversation View
We would like to acknowledge an anonymous researcher for their assistance.
NetworkExtension
We would like to acknowledge Mathy Vanhoef (KU Leuven University) for their assistance.
Photos
We would like to acknowledge Abhay Kailasia (@abhay_kailasia) of Lakshmi Narain College Of Technology Bhopal for their assistance.
Entry added March 7, 2024
Power Management
We would like to acknowledge Pan ZhenPeng (@Peterpan0927) of STAR Labs SG Pte. Ltd. for their assistance.
Entry added March 7, 2024
Safari
We would like to acknowledge Abhinav Saraswat and Matthew C for their assistance.
Entry added March 7, 2024
Sandbox
We would like to acknowledge Zhongquan Li (@Guluisacat) for their assistance.
Entry added March 7, 2024
Settings
We would like to acknowledge Christian Scalese, Logan Ramgoon, Lucas Monteiro, Daniel Monteiro, Felipe Monteiro, and Peter Watthey for their assistance.
Siri
We would like to acknowledge Bistrit Dahal for their assistance.
Entry added March 7, 2024
Software Update
We would like to acknowledge Bin Zhang of Dublin City University for their assistance.
Entry added March 7, 2024
WebKit
We would like to acknowledge Nan Wang (@eternalsakura13) of 360 Vulnerability Research Institute, Valentino Dalla Valle, Pedro Bernardo, Marco Squarcina, and Lorenzo Veronese of TU Wien for their assistance.
Entry added March 7, 2024