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CVE-2024-40815

CVE-2024-40815 PUBLISHED CVSS 7.5 HIGH

Reported by apple · Published July 29, 2024

A race condition was addressed with additional validation. This issue is fixed in iOS 17.6 and iPadOS 17.6, macOS Sonoma 14.6, macOS Ventura 13.6.8, tvOS 17.6, watchOS 10.6. A malicious attacker with arbitrary read and write capability may be able to bypass Pointer Authentication.

Fixed versions

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PackageEcosystemFixed in
ipadosapple17.6
iOS and iPadOSApple17.6
macOSApple14.6, 13.6.8
watchosapple10.6
tvosapple17.6
ipad_osapple17.6
iphone_osapple17.6

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

VendorProductVersions
AppleiOS and iPadOS0
ApplemacOS0, 0
AppletvOS0
ApplewatchOS0
AppleiOS and iPadOS0
ApplemacOS0, 0
AppletvOS0
applemacos13.0, 14.0
appleipad_os0
appletvos0
appleiphone_os0
ApplewatchOS0
applewatchos0

Timeline

  • Jul 29, 2024 CVE Published
  • Jul 30, 2024 EPSS Score (30 in total, the first dated here)
  • Oct 4, 2024 Coalition ESS Score (15 in total, the first dated here)
  • Mar 24, 2025 CVE Updated
  • Jun 2, 2026 Security Advisory

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The same record, from the CLI:

vulnetix vdb vuln CVE-2024-40815
vulnetix vdb fixes CVE-2024-40815

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curl -s -H "Authorization: ApiKey ${VULNETIX_ORG_ID}:${VULNETIX_API_KEY}" \
  "https://api.vdb.vulnetix.com/v2/vuln/CVE-2024-40815/fixes/registry"

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