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CVE-2024-40844A privacy issue was addressed with improved handling of temporary files. This issue is fixed in iOS 17.7 and iPadOS 17.7, macOS Sequoia…
- 5.5MediumCVSS base score
- 0.23%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 86% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A privacy issue was addressed with improved handling of temporary files. This issue is fixed in iOS 17.7 and iPadOS 17.7, macOS Sequoia 15, macOS Sonoma 14.7, macOS Ventura 13.7. An app may be able to observe data displayed to the user by Shortcuts.
Timeline
ID reserved
By apple
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 19 months later
· 19 months 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 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.23% · top 86% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Affected products
- affected < 17.7
- affected < 13.7
- affected < 14.7
- affected < 15
References
References8
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/121234 (opens in a new tab)
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/121238 (opens in a new tab)
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/121246 (opens in a new tab)
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/121247 (opens in a new tab)
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Sep/40 (opens in a new tab)
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Sep/39 (opens in a new tab)
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Sep/33 (opens in a new tab)
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Sep/41 (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-2024-38681 (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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