medium Known exploitedREV. 01

CVE-2024-27834Apple Pointer Authentication Bypass

An attacker who already has arbitrary read and write capability may be able to bypass Pointer Authentication, a memory protection, on Apple devices. Safari, iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS and watchOS are affected.

YOUR NEXT MOVE

Update Apple devices and Safari to the fixed releases: Safari 17.5, iOS and iPadOS 16.7.8 or 17.5, macOS Sonoma 14.5, tvOS 17.5, watchOS 10.5.

Read the risk

THE VITAL STATS
CVSS score
5.5/ 10
CVSS v3.1
EPSS probability
0.6%
Likelihood of exploitation
Attack complexity
Low
Conditions needed to exploit
Known exploited
Yes — CISA KEV
CVE published
2024-05-14
Added to KEV
2026-11-04
CISA due date
2026-11-18
Exploit published
Not recorded
Confidence
high
Kill chain
unclassified
MITRE ATT&CK
—
Severity
medium

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

Attacker needsArbitrary read and write capability on the target device.

Fixed inSafari 17.5, iOS 16.7.8 and iPadOS 16.7.8, iOS 17.5 and iPadOS 17.5, macOS Sonoma 14.5, tvOS 17.5, watchOS 10.5

Behind the card

5 REFERENCES
Field-level provenanceTRACE THE SOURCES +

Which source supports each field, when it was retrieved, and who extracted it.

FieldsSourceRetrievedExtractorConfidence
cvss, exploitation.attack_complexity, exploitation.exploit_available, published_at, referencesnvd.nist.gov2026-11-05scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1high
exploitation.known_exploited, exploitation.kev_added, exploitation.kev_duecisa.gov2026-11-05scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1high
epssapi.first.org2026-11-05scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1high
title, subtitle, summary, severity, remediation, mitre_attack, kill_chain, recommended_action, confidence, tags, exploitation.prerequisitesnvd.nist.gov2026-11-05claude-codehigh

Printing history

THE RECORD
  1. r1Initial base card

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