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CVE-2024-23255An authentication issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in iOS 17.4 and iPadOS 17.4, macOS Sonoma 14.4.…
- 9.1CriticalCVSS base score
- 0.67%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 47% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
An authentication issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in iOS 17.4 and iPadOS 17.4, macOS Sonoma 14.4. Photos in the Hidden Photos Album may be viewed without authentication.
Timeline
ID reserved
By apple
- 56 days later
· 56 days later
Published
- 2 years later
· 2 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | Critical9.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Low2.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.67% · top 47% of all CVEs (15 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.1.
Affected products
- affected < 17.4
- affected < 14.4
References
References7
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/120893 (opens in a new tab)
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/120895 (opens in a new tab)
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT214081 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT214084 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Mar/21 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT214084 (opens in a new tab)
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT214081 (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2024-20774 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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