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CVE-2024-40786

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-40786 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Apple iOS, iPadOS, and macOS that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to view sensitive user information due to improved state management. With a CVSS score of 7.5, it has a network attack vector and low attack complexity, posing a significant risk to confidentiality. Apple has released patches in iOS 17.6, iPadOS 17.6, iOS 16.7.9, iPadOS 16.7.9, and macOS Ventura 13.6.8 to address this issue. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 16.7.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:ipados:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 17.0, < 17.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:ipados:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 16.7.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 17.0, < 17.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 13.6.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:macos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.97%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
58.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0097 is in the 33rd percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 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/Jul/16
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2024/Jul/17
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2024/Jul/19
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
support.apple.com / en-us/HT214116
Release NotesVendor Advisory
support.apple.com / en-us/HT214117
Release NotesVendor Advisory
support.apple.com / en-us/HT214120
Release NotesVendor Advisory
support.apple.com / kb/HT214116
support.apple.com / kb/HT214117
support.apple.com / kb/HT214120
support.apple.com / en-us/120908
support.apple.com / en-us/120909
support.apple.com / en-us/120912