About the security content of visionOS 1.2

This document describes the security content of visionOS 1.2.

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visionOS 1.2

CoreMedia

Available for: Apple Vision Pro

Impact: An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2024-27817: pattern-f (@pattern_F_) of Ant Security Light-Year Lab

CoreMedia

Available for: Apple Vision Pro

Impact: Processing a file may lead to unexpected app termination or arbitrary code execution

Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2024-27831: Amir Bazine and Karsten König of CrowdStrike Counter Adversary Operations

Disk Images

Available for: Apple Vision Pro

Impact: An app may be able to elevate privileges

Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2024-27832: an anonymous researcher

Foundation

Available for: Apple Vision Pro

Impact: An app may be able to elevate privileges

Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2024-27801: CertiK SkyFall Team

ImageIO

Available for: Apple Vision Pro

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2024-27836: Junsung Lee working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative

IOSurface

Available for: Apple Vision Pro

Impact: An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2024-27828: Pan ZhenPeng (@Peterpan0927) of STAR Labs SG Pte. Ltd.

Kernel

Available for: Apple Vision Pro

Impact: An attacker that has already achieved kernel code execution may be able to bypass kernel memory protections

Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2024-27840: an anonymous researcher

Kernel

Available for: Apple Vision Pro

Impact: An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2024-27815: an anonymous researcher, and Joseph Ravichandran (@0xjprx) of MIT CSAIL

libiconv

Available for: Apple Vision Pro

Impact: An app may be able to elevate privileges

Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2024-27811: Nick Wellnhofer

Messages

Available for: Apple Vision Pro

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted message may lead to a denial-of-service

Description: This issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code.

CVE-2024-27800: Daniel Zajork and Joshua Zajork

Metal

Available for: Apple Vision Pro

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted file may lead to unexpected app termination or arbitrary code execution

Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2024-27802: Meysam Firouzi (@R00tkitsmm) working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative

Metal

Available for: Apple Vision Pro

Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause unexpected app termination or arbitrary code execution

Description: An out-of-bounds access issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2024-27857: Michael DePlante (@izobashi) of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative

Safari

Available for: Apple Vision Pro

Impact: A website's permission dialog may persist after navigation away from the site

Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2024-27844: Narendra Bhati of Suma Soft Pvt. Ltd in Pune (India), Shaheen Fazim

Transparency

Available for: Apple Vision Pro

Impact: An app may be able to access user-sensitive data

Description: This issue was addressed with a new entitlement.

CVE-2024-27884: Mickey Jin (@patch1t)

WebKit

Available for: Apple Vision Pro

Impact: A maliciously crafted webpage may be able to fingerprint the user

Description: The issue was addressed by adding additional logic.

CVE-2024-27838: Emilio Cobos of Mozilla

WebKit

Available for: Apple Vision Pro

Impact: Processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2024-27808: Lukas Bernhard of CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

WebKit

Available for: Apple Vision Pro

Impact: Processing web content may lead to a denial-of-service

Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved file handling.

CVE-2024-27812: Ryan Pickren (ryanpickren.com)

WebKit

Available for: Apple Vision Pro

Impact: A maliciously crafted webpage may be able to fingerprint the user

Description: This issue was addressed with improvements to the noise injection algorithm.

CVE-2024-27850: an anonymous researcher

WebKit

Available for: Apple Vision Pro

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: An integer overflow was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2024-27833: Manfred Paul (@_manfp) working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative

WebKit

Available for: Apple Vision Pro

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: The issue was addressed with improved bounds checks.

CVE-2024-27851: Nan Wang (@eternalsakura13) of 360 Vulnerability Research Institute

WebKit Canvas

Available for: Apple Vision Pro

Impact: A maliciously crafted webpage may be able to fingerprint the user

Description: This issue was addressed through improved state management.

CVE-2024-27830: Joe Rutkowski (@Joe12387) of Crawless and @abrahamjuliot

WebKit Web Inspector

Available for: Apple Vision Pro

Impact: Processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2024-27820: Jeff Johnson of underpassapp.com

Additional recognition

ImageIO

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