A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Apple iOS and iPadOS up to 18.0. This affects some unknown processing of the component Audio Message Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

This issue was addressed with improved checks. This issue is fixed in iOS 18.0.1 and iPadOS 18.0.1. Audio messages in Messages may be able to capture a few seconds of audio before the microphone indicator is activated.

The advisory is shared at support.apple.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-44207 since 08/20/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 10/05/2024). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1592 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 18.0.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

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