- Apple has released security updates to mitigate a severe vulnerability that impacts Macs, Apple TVs, and iPhones.
- The vulnerability (CVE-2024-23222) is Apple’s first zero-day of 2024 that allows threat actors to execute arbitrary code on targeted devices.
Apple has issued patches to mitigate critical zero-day WebKit vulnerabilities for the latest iOS, tvOS, and macOS platforms. The patches will cover over 15 vulnerabilities that expose Apple devices to data leaks, arbitrary code execution, and denial-of-service attacks. The zero-day is the company’s first for 2024.
Threat actors can leverage confusion-type vulnerabilities to crash devices, run arbitrary codes, and access out-of-bounds memory. As usual, Apple has not given details about the exploits to prevent public access to more information about the vulnerability.
Apple has released the fixes for iOS platforms for versions 16.7.5 and further, tvOS version 17.3 and higher, iPadOS 16.7.5 and later, and macOS Monterey 12.7.3 and beyond. Because WebKit is the engine that runs Apple browsers, millions of devices are potentially at risk. The company has urged immediate updates to the latest versions to mitigate the…
