CVE-2024-44131: Apple iPadOS

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

This issue was addressed with improved validation of symlinks. This issue is fixed in iOS 18 and iPadOS 18, macOS Sequoia 15. An app may be able to access sensitive user data.

Affected products

• Apple iPadOS: before 18.0 (fixed in 18.0)
• Apple iPhone OS: before 18.0 (fixed in 18.0)
• Apple macOS: before 15.0 (fixed in 15.0)

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