CVE-2024-44258: Apple iPadOS

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

This issue was addressed with improved handling of symlinks. This issue is fixed in iOS 17.7.1 and iPadOS 17.7.1, iOS 18.1 and iPadOS 18.1, tvOS 18.1, visionOS 2.1. Restoring a maliciously crafted backup file may lead to modification of protected system files.

Affected products

• Apple iPadOS: before 17.7.1 (fixed in 17.7.1); from 18.0, before 18.1 (fixed in 18.1)
• Apple iPhone OS: before 17.7.1 (fixed in 17.7.1); from 18.0, before 18.1 (fixed in 18.1)
• Apple tvOS: before 18.1 (fixed in 18.1)
• Apple visionOS: before 2.1 (fixed in 2.1)

Published 2024-10-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.