Apple visionOS Web memory corruption

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Apple visionOS. Affected is an unknown function of the component Web Handler. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2024-54534. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Apple visionOS (affected version unknown) and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown functionality of the component Web Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in Safari 18.2, iOS 18.2 and iPadOS 18.2, iPadOS 17.7.6, macOS Sequoia 15.2, tvOS 18.2, visionOS 2.2, watchOS 11.2. Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to memory corruption.

It is possible to read the advisory at support.apple.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-54534 since 12/03/2024. 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 pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 04/08/2026).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 213685 (SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : webkit2gtk3 (SUSE-SU-2025:0043-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (213685) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2025-0815). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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• IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager
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Type

• Operating System

Vendor

• Apple

Name

• visionOS

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.apple.com/

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