CVE-2024-27839 (GCVE-0-2024-27839)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-13 23:00 – Updated: 2026-04-02 18:13
VLAI
Summary
A privacy issue was addressed by moving sensitive data to a more secure location. This issue is fixed in iOS 17.5 and iPadOS 17.5. A malicious application may be able to determine a user's current location.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-08-07 17:55 UTC
CWE
  • A malicious application may be able to determine a user's current location
  • CWE-203 - Observable Discrepancy
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Apple iOS and iPadOS Affected: 0 , < 17.5 (custom)
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apple iphone_os Affected: 0 , < 17.5 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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apple ipad_os Affected: 0 , < 17.5 (custom)
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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

Sightings

Author Source Type Date Other

Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.


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