CVE-2024-27834: Apple iPadOS

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The issue was addressed with improved checks. This issue is fixed in Safari 17.5, iOS 16.7.8 and iPadOS 16.7.8, iOS 17.5 and iPadOS 17.5, macOS Sonoma 14.5, tvOS 17.5, watchOS 10.5. An attacker with arbitrary read and write capability may be able to bypass Pointer Authentication.

Affected products

• Apple iPadOS: before 17.5 (fixed in 17.5)
• Apple iPhone OS: before 17.5 (fixed in 17.5)
• Apple macOS: from 14.0, before 14.5 (fixed in 14.5)
• Apple Safari: before 17.5 (fixed in 17.5)
• Apple tvOS: before 17.5 (fixed in 17.5)
• Apple watchOS: before 10.5 (fixed in 10.5)
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 39 only; version 40 only
• WebKitGTK WebKitGTK: before 2.44.2 (fixed in 2.44.2)
• Wpewebkit Wpe Webkit: before 2.44.2 (fixed in 2.44.2)

Published 2024-05-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.