Apple Safari Web denial of service

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Apple Safari. Affected is an unknown function of the component Web Handler. The manipulation leads to denial of service. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2024-44192. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Apple Safari (affected version unknown) and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown functionality of the component Web Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

The issue was addressed with improved checks. This issue is fixed in watchOS 11, macOS Sequoia 15, Safari 18, visionOS 2, iOS 18 and iPadOS 18, tvOS 18. Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash.

It is possible to read the advisory at support.apple.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-44192 since 08/20/2024. 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 03/24/2025). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1499 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 233282 (Debian dsa-5885 : gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.0 - security update), 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 (233282). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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• Web Browser

Vendor

• Apple

Name

• Safari

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.apple.com/

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