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🛡️ CVE-2024-27828 — ipados

🟠 CVSS 7.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-786 NVD
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Description

The issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in iOS 17.5 and iPadOS 17.5, tvOS 17.5, visionOS 1.2, watchOS 10.5. An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

  • Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: Required — someone has to click, open or visit something.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-27828 is classified as CWE-786: Access of Memory Location Before Start of Buffer. The product reads or writes to a buffer using an index or pointer that references a memory location prior to the beginning of the buffer.

Affected software

CVE-2024-27828 is recorded against 5 packages.

  • ipados (fixed in 17.5)
  • iphone-os (fixed in 17.5)
  • tvos (fixed in 17.5)
  • visionos (fixed in 1.2)
  • watchos (fixed in 17.5)

Timeline and source

Published on 10 June 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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Other advisories for this package

ipados has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-786: Access of Memory Location Before Start of Buffer) in other software:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-786
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-06-10
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
ipados — 17.5
iphone-os — 17.5
tvos — 17.5
visionos — 1.2
watchos — 17.5

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