CVE-2024-40844: Apple iPadOS

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Apple iPadOS: before 17.7 (fixed in 17.7)
• Apple iPhone OS: before 17.7 (fixed in 17.7)
• Apple macOS: before 13.7 (fixed in 13.7); from 14.0, before 14.7 (fixed in 14.7)

Published 2024-09-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.