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CVE-2024-23222 KEVPublic exploit High · 8.8 EPSS 10.6%

Apple Multiple Products WebKit Type Confusion Vulnerability

Apple · Multiple Products

Summary

A type confusion flaw in WebKit, the browser engine used across multiple Apple products, including Safari and iOS, is addressed by improved checks. An attacker can achieve arbitrary code execution by getting a user to load maliciously crafted web content over the network, with no authentication required but user interaction needed.

Official description · NVD

A type confusion issue was addressed with improved checks. This issue is fixed in Safari 17.3, iOS 15.8.7 and iPadOS 15.8.7, iOS 16.7.5 and iPadOS 16.7.5, iOS 17.3 and iPadOS 17.3, macOS Monterey 12.7.3, macOS Sonoma 14.3, macOS Ventura 13.6.4, tvOS 17.3, visionOS 1.0.2. Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution. This fix associated with the Coruna exploit was shipped in iOS 17.3 on January 22, 2024. This update brings that fix to devices that cannot update to the latest iOS version.

Breakdown
68.3 / 100
Exploited
Yes, in CISA KEV
Reports
0
Tactics
2/15

How an attack unfolds

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  1. How attackers get in

  2. What they do

First seen exploited 1 day before it was disclosed. Public exploit code (PoC-in-GitHub) appeared 2 years after disclosure.

  1. First seen exploitedVulnCheck KEV evidence1 day before
  2. DisclosedAdded to CISA KEVEU database agreesday 0
  3. Public exploit codePoC-in-GitHub+2 yrs

CISA KEV listing is when exploitation was confirmed, not necessarily the first attack.

techniques

2 , grouped by in kill-chain order, 2 cited passages 2

Initial AccessTA0001

Drive-by Compromise T1189 Medium
AI mapping from the description · how it is exploited

Malicious web content triggers exploitation via drive-by

Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution
From the official description (NVD) Original (opens in a new tab) ↗

ExecutionTA0002

Command and Scripting Interpreter T1059 Medium
AI mapping from the description · primary impact

Arbitrary code execution is the direct impact

may lead to arbitrary code execution
From the official description (NVD) Original (opens in a new tab) ↗

Detection

0 rules for this CVE · 98 general rules for its techniques

Rules for this CVE

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What security researchers reported

Not named in any threat report yet

Also mentioned in 50 community threat pulses (AlienVault OTX)

Weaker evidence

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