CVE-2024-23222
Apple Inc. · published 2024-01-23
Source record Collected from the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities
CISA lists this CVE as known exploited (added 2024-01-23).
- CISA's name for it: Apple Multiple Products WebKit Type Confusion Vulnerability
- CISA's description: Apple iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, and Safari WebKit contain a type confusion vulnerability that leads to code execution when processing maliciously crafted web content. This vulnerability could impact HTML parsers that use WebKit, including but not limited to Apple Safari and non-Apple products which rely on WebKit for HTML processing.
- Known ransomware campaign use, per CISA: Unknown
Source: CISA KEV catalog (CC0 1.0).
Description
Description by Apple Inc. via the CVE Program.
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.
Status at the source
- NVD status: Analyzed
Affected products, as the source lists them
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Apple | Safari | 0 – before 17.3: affected |
| Apple | iOS and iPadOS | 0 – before 15.8.7: affected 0 – before 16.7.5: affected 0 – before 17.3: affected |
| Apple | macOS | 0 – before 12.7.3: affected 0 – before 13.6.4: affected 0 – before 14.3: affected |
| Apple | tvOS | 0 – before 17.3: affected |
| Apple | visionOS | 0 – before 1.0.2: affected |
Products named in NVD's CPE match criteria (6)
cpe:2.3:a:apple:safari:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:apple:ipados:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:apple:macos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:apple:tvos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:apple:visionos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
DeSpy has not checked any unit, hardware revision or firmware. A product missing here is not a statement that it is unaffected.
Scores, as their sources published them
- CVSS 3.1: 8.8 HIGH — as published by NIST (Primary)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - CVSS 3.1: 8.8 HIGH — as published by CISA-ADP (Secondary)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - SSVC — CISA's assessment (SSVC 2.0.3, CISA Coordinator): Exploitation: active · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
DeSpy does not score records. These are the sources' own values.
Weaknesses
Sources
References the source lists
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/118479
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/120304
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/120305
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/120307
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/120309
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/120310
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/120311
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/120339
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/126632
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Feb/6
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jan/34
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jan/40
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/US43EQFC2IS66EA2CPAZFH2RQ6WD7PKF/
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT214055
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT214059
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT214061
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT214055
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT214056
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT214057
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT214058
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT214059
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT214061
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT214063
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT214070
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2024-23222
Source dates: published 2024-01-23, last changed 2026-06-17. DeSpy's copy of this version is dated 2026-09-28.
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