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CVE-2018-4317

43
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-4317 is a high-severity use-after-free vulnerability affecting Apple products including iOS, tvOS, Safari, iTunes for Windows, and iCloud for Windows prior to their respective version 12 releases. This flaw, rated 8.8 CVSS, could allow an unauthenticated attacker to achieve high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability through a low-complexity network attack requiring user interaction. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, a public exploit (EDB-45486) exists, and the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apple:safari:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 12.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:tvos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 7.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apple:icloud:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 12.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apple:itunes:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.8HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
9.35%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
94.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-45486 · Sep 25, 2018
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0935 is in the 95th percentile among its peer group of 14,825 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

applevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

support.apple.com / kb/HT209106
Vendor Advisory
support.apple.com / kb/HT209107
Vendor Advisory
support.apple.com / kb/HT209109
Vendor Advisory
support.apple.com / kb/HT209140
Vendor Advisory
support.apple.com / kb/HT209141
Vendor Advisory