Apple iOS/iPadOS up to 17.7 Private Browsing Tab improper authentication

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability categorized as critical has been discovered in Apple iOS and iPadOS. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Private Browsing Tab Handler. Such manipulation leads to improper authentication. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-44202. There is no exploit available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Apple iOS and iPadOS and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality of the component Private Browsing Tab Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper authentication vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-287. When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

An authentication issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in Safari 18, iOS 18 and iPadOS 18. Private Browsing tabs may be accessed without authentication.

The advisory is available at support.apple.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-44202 since 08/20/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 04/05/2026).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 212177 (Apple Safari 18.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities (121241)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 18 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (212177) and EUVD (EUVD-2024-40946). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Type

• Smartphone Operating System

Vendor

• Apple

Name

• iOS
• iPadOS

Version

• 10.15.0
• 12.4.7
• 12.5.2
• 12.5.3
• 12.7
• 13.0
• 13.0.1
• 13.1
• 13.1.1
• 13.2
• 13.3
• 13.3.1
• 13.4
• 13.4.1
• 13.5
• 13.5.1
• 13.6
• 13.7
• 14.0
• 14.2
• 14.3
• 14.4
• 14.4.1
• 14.4.2
• 14.5
• 14.5.0
• 14.5.1
• 14.6
• 14.7
• 14.7.1
• 14.8
• 15
• 15.0
• 15.0.1
• 15.0.2
• 15.1
• 15.2
• 15.2.1
• 15.3
• 15.3.1
• 15.4
• 15.4.1
• 15.5
• 15.6
• 15.6.1
• 15.7
• 15.7.1
• 15.7.4
• 16.2
• 16.3
• 16.3.1
• 16.4
• 16.4.1
• 16.5
• 16.5.1
• 16.6
• 16.6.1
• 16.7
• 16.7.2
• 16.7.3
• 16.7.6
• 17.0
• 17.0.3
• 17.1
• 17.2
• 17.3
• 17.4
• 17.4.0
• 17.5
• 17.7

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.apple.com/

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