Apple visionOS Webpage information exposure

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A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in Apple visionOS. This impacts an unknown function of the component Webpage Handler. The manipulation leads to information exposure. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2024-27850. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Apple visionOS (affected version not known). This issue affects some unknown functionality of the component Webpage Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information exposure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-203. The product behaves differently or sends different responses under different circumstances in a way that is observable to an unauthorized actor, which exposes security-relevant information about the state of the product, such as whether a particular operation was successful or not. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

This issue was addressed with improvements to the noise injection algorithm. This issue is fixed in Safari 17.5, iOS 17.5 and iPadOS 17.5, macOS Sonoma 14.5, visionOS 1.2. A maliciously crafted webpage may be able to fingerprint the user.

It is possible to read the advisory at support.apple.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-27850 since 02/26/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 237469 (Amazon Linux 2 : webkitgtk4 (ALAS-2025-2869)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (237469). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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• Operating System

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• Apple

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• visionOS

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.apple.com/

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