CVE-2024-40785
Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to a cross site scripting attack.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.78%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
This issue was addressed with improved checks. 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 a cross site scripting attack.
- CVSS 3.1
- 6.1 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.78% probability · 56th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Affected
- apple/iphone os · apple/ipados · apple/safari · apple/watchos · apple/tvos · apple/visionos · apple/macos
- Source
- product-security@apple.com
EPSS 0.8% 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, Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jul/16Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jul/17Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jul/18Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jul/21Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jul/22Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jul/23Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00006.html
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT214116Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT214117Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT214119Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT214121Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT214122Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT214123Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT214124Release Notes, Vendor 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/HT214124
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.