Apple Safari Web memory corruption

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Apple Safari. It has been classified as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Web Handler. Performing a manipulation results in memory corruption. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2024-54534. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Apple Safari (unknown version). This affects an unknown code block of the component Web Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on 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. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-54534 since 12/03/2024. 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. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 06/11/2026).

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). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager
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Type

• Web Browser

Vendor

• Apple

Name

• Safari

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.apple.com/

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