Apple Safari on Intel Cookie cross site scripting

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A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in Apple Safari on Intel. This affects an unknown function of the component Cookie Handler. Such manipulation leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2024-44309. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability was found in Apple Safari on Intel (unknown version) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the component Cookie Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. Impacted is integrity. CVE summarizes:

A cookie management issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in Safari 18.1.1, iOS 17.7.2 and iPadOS 17.7.2, iOS 18.1.1 and iPadOS 18.1.1, macOS Sequoia 15.1.1, visionOS 2.1.1. Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to a cross site scripting attack. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited on Intel-based Mac systems.

The advisory is available at support.apple.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-44309 since 08/20/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 04/07/2026). This vulnerability is assigned to T1059.007 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

It is declared as attacked. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 211691 (macOS 15.x < 15.1.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities (121753)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. This issue was added on 11/21/2024 to the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog with a due date of 12/12/2024:

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Zero-Day.cz (938) and Tenable (211691). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• Web Browser

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• Apple

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• Safari

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.apple.com/

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