Apple iOS/iPadOS Web Contents memory corruption

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Apple iOS and iPadOS. Impacted is an unknown function of the component Web Contents Handler. This manipulation causes memory corruption. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2024-54658. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Apple iOS and iPadOS (affected version unknown). It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Web Contents Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect 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.

It is possible to read the advisory at support.apple.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-54658 since 12/03/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. 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 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). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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• Smartphone Operating System

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• Apple

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• iOS
• iPadOS

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.apple.com/

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