CVE-2024-40780: Apple iPadOS

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking. This issue is fixed in Safari 17.6, iOS 16.7.9 and iPadOS 16.7.9, iOS 17.6 and iPadOS 17.6, macOS Sonoma 14.6, tvOS 17.6, visionOS 1.3, watchOS 10.6. Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash.

Affected products

• Apple iPadOS: before 16.7.9 (fixed in 16.7.9); from 17.0, before 17.6 (fixed in 17.6)
• Apple iPhone OS: before 16.7.9 (fixed in 16.7.9); from 17.0, before 17.6 (fixed in 17.6)
• Apple macOS: before 14.6 (fixed in 14.6)
• Apple Safari: before 17.6 (fixed in 17.6)
• Apple tvOS: before 17.6 (fixed in 17.6)
• Apple visionOS: before 1.3 (fixed in 1.3)
• Apple watchOS: before 10.6 (fixed in 10.6)

Published 2024-07-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.