Apple visionOS Web Content memory corruption

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A vulnerability categorized as critical has been discovered in Apple visionOS. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Web Content Handler. Executing a manipulation can lead to memory corruption. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2025-24264. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Apple visionOS (affected version unknown). This vulnerability affects an unknown functionality of the component Web Content 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. CVE summarizes:

The issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in visionOS 2.4, tvOS 18.4, iPadOS 17.7.6, iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4, macOS Sequoia 15.4, Safari 18.4. Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected Safari crash.

The advisory is available at support.apple.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2025-24264 since 01/17/2025. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 04/11/2025).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 234140 (Debian dsa-5899 : 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 (234140). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit 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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