CVE-2024-54486 (GCVE-0-2024-54486)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-12-11 22:56 – Updated: 2026-04-02 18:08
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
The issue was addressed with improved checks. This issue is fixed in iOS 18.2 and iPadOS 18.2, iPadOS 17.7.3, macOS Sequoia 15.2, macOS Sonoma 14.7.2, macOS Ventura 13.7.2, tvOS 18.2, visionOS 2.2, watchOS 11.2. Processing a maliciously crafted font may result in the disclosure of process memory.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-12-20 19:03 UTC
CWE
- Processing a maliciously crafted font may result in the disclosure of process memory
- CWE-noinfo Not enough information
Assigner
References
13 references
Impacted products
6 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apple | iOS and iPadOS |
Affected:
0 , < 18.2
(custom)
|
guessed | |
| Apple | iPadOS |
Affected:
0 , < 17.7.3
(custom)
|
guessed | |
| Apple | macOS |
Affected:
0 , < 13.7.2
(custom)
Affected: 0 , < 14.7.2 (custom) Affected: 0 , < 15.2 (custom) |
guessed | |
| Apple | tvOS |
Affected:
0 , < 18.2
(custom)
|
guessed | |
| Apple | visionOS |
Affected:
0 , < 2.2
(custom)
|
guessed | |
| Apple | watchOS |
Affected:
0 , < 11.2
(custom)
|
guessed |
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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