🛡️ CVE-2024-44192 on Debian — webkit2gtk

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

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

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2024-44192 as tracked by Debian, for the package webkit2gtk. The fix is available in version 2.48.0-1; earlier versions remain affected.

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 none, integrity none, availability high.

Weakness class

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-44192 is classified as CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. A request can consume memory, CPU or storage without limit, exhausting capacity for everyone else.

Affected software

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-44192 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • webkit2gtk (fixed in 2.48.0-1)
  • wpewebkit (fixed in 2.48.0-1)

Timeline and source

Published on 10 March 2025 and last revised on 4 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

security-tracker.debian.org (Advisory)

CVE-2024-44192 on other distributions

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2025-03-10
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-08-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
webkit2gtk — 2.48.0-1
wpewebkit — 2.48.0-1

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