CVE-2024-40782
A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.98%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management. This issue is fixed in Safari 17.6, iOS 16.7.9 and iPadOS 16.7.9, iOS 17.6 and iPadOS 17.6, macOS Sonoma 14.6, tvOS 17.6, visionOS 1.3, watchOS 10.6. Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash.
- CVSS 3.1
- 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.98% probability · 62th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-416
- Affected
- apple/safari · apple/ipados · apple/iphone os · apple/macos · apple/tvos · apple/visionos · apple/watchos
- Source
- product-security@apple.com
EPSS 1.0% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/120908
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/120909
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/120911
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/120913
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/120914
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/120915
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/120916
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jul/15Mailing List
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jul/16Mailing List
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jul/17Mailing List
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jul/18Mailing List
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jul/21Mailing List
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jul/22Mailing List
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jul/23Mailing List
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00006.html
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT214116Vendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT214117Vendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT214119Vendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT214121Vendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT214122Vendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT214123Vendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT214124Vendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT214116
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT214117
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT214119
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT214122
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT214123
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT214124
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.