CVE-2024-23296
High 7.8 Exploited in the wild (KEV)
Confirmed active exploitation — CISA KEV catalog
- Name
- Apple Multiple Products Memory Corruption Vulnerability
- Added to catalog
- Remediation due date (US federal)
- 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.
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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7.8 (HIGH)
Score source: NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS — exploit probability
- 1% (percentile: 73) as of 2 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-787
Affected products
apple: ipados; apple: iphone os; apple: macos; apple: tvos; apple: visionos; apple: watchos
References
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/120881 Release NotesVendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/120882 Release NotesVendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/120883 Release NotesVendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/120893 Release NotesVendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/120895 Release NotesVendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/120898 Release NotesVendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/120900 Release NotesVendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/120910 Release NotesVendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT214081 Vendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT214081 Vendor Advisory