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CVE-2024-27796

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-27796 is a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Apple iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, specifically addressed in versions 17.5 and 14.5 respectively. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), it allows an attacker to elevate privileges through local access with low attack complexity, potentially leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 16.7.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:ipados:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 17.0, < 17.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:ipados:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 16.7.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 17.0, < 17.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 12.0, < 12.7.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:macos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.26%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
17.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0026 is in the 16th percentile among its peer group of 11,621 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

applevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2024/May/10
Mailing List
seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2024/May/12
Mailing List
support.apple.com / en-us/HT214101
Vendor Advisory
support.apple.com / en-us/HT214106
Vendor Advisory
support.apple.com / kb/HT214100
Vendor Advisory
support.apple.com / kb/HT214101
Vendor Advisory
support.apple.com / kb/HT214105
Vendor Advisory
support.apple.com / kb/HT214106
Vendor Advisory
support.apple.com / kb/HT214107
Vendor Advisory
support.apple.com / en-us/120898
support.apple.com / en-us/120899
support.apple.com / en-us/120900
support.apple.com / en-us/120903
support.apple.com / en-us/120905