About the security content of Safari 18.1

This document describes the security content of Safari 18.1.

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About the security content of Safari 18.1

Safari Downloads

Available for: macOS Ventura and macOS Sonoma

Impact: An attacker may be able to misuse a trust relationship to download malicious content

Description: This issue was addressed through improved state management.

CVE-2024-44259: Narendra Bhati, Manager of Cyber Security at Suma Soft Pvt. Ltd, Pune (India)

Safari Private Browsing

Available for: macOS Ventura and macOS Sonoma

Impact: Private browsing may leak some browsing history

Description: An information leakage was addressed with additional validation.

CVE-2024-44229: Lucas Di Tomase

WebKit

Available for: macOS Ventura and macOS Sonoma

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may prevent Content Security Policy from being enforced

Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2024-44296: Narendra Bhati, Manager of Cyber Security at Suma Soft Pvt. Ltd, Pune (India)

WebKit

Available for: macOS Ventura and macOS Sonoma

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash

Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2024-44244: an anonymous researcher, Q1IQ (@q1iqF) and P1umer (@p1umer)

Additional recognition

Safari Private Browsing

We would like to acknowledge an anonymous researcher, r00tdaddy for their assistance.

Safari Tabs

We would like to acknowledge Jaydev Ahire for their assistance.