| CVSS Meta Temp Score | Current Exploit Price (≈) | CTI Interest Score |
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Summary
A vulnerability categorized as critical has been discovered in Apple visionOS. This issue affects some unknown processing. Such manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2024-40771. The attack needs to be performed locally. There is not any exploit available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.
Details
A vulnerability was found in Apple visionOS (affected version unknown). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality. 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. CVE summarizes:
The issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in iOS 16.7.8 and iPadOS 16.7.8, iOS 17.5 and iPadOS 17.5, macOS Monterey 12.7.5, macOS Sonoma 14.5, macOS Ventura 13.6.7, tvOS 17.5, visionOS 1.2, watchOS 10.5. An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.
The advisory is shared for download at support.apple.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-40771 since 07/10/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 04/08/2026).
Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.
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Product
Type
Vendor
Name
License
Website
- Vendor: https://www.apple.com/
CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
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CVSSv3
VulDB Meta Base Score: 8.0VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.9
VulDB Base Score: 7.8
VulDB Temp Score: 7.5
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NVD Base Score: 7.8
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ADP CISA Base Score: 8.4
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Exploiting
Class: Memory corruptionCWE: CWE-119
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ATT&CK: 🔍
Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No
Availability: 🔍
Status: Not defined
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Threat Intelligence
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Countermeasures
Recommended: UpgradeStatus: 🔍
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Timeline
07/10/2024 🔍01/15/2025 🔍
01/15/2025 🔍
04/08/2026 🔍
Sources
Vendor: apple.comAdvisory: support.apple.com
Status: Confirmed
CVE: CVE-2024-40771 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-40771
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-292076
Entry
Created: 01/15/2025 21:18Updated: 04/08/2026 06:01
Changes: 01/15/2025 21:18 (53), 03/14/2025 15:32 (11), 04/08/2026 06:01 (12)
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Cache ID: 216:B53:103
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