Apple visionOS Web Contents memory corruption

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Apple visionOS. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Web Contents Handler. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2024-54658. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Apple visionOS (version now known) and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Web Contents 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 availability. The summary by CVE is:

The issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in iOS 17.4 and iPadOS 17.4, Safari 17.4, tvOS 17.4, watchOS 10.4, visionOS 1.1, macOS Sonoma 14.4. Processing web content may lead to a denial-of-service.

The advisory is shared at support.apple.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-54658 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. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 03/03/2025).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 216648 (SUSE SLES15 Security Update : webkit2gtk3 (SUSE-SU-2025:0638-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (216648). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• Operating System

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• Apple

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• visionOS

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.apple.com/

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