NVD / CVE Program· CNA apple

CVE-2024-40852: This issue was addressed by restricting options offered on a locked device.

MediumCVSS 5.3 · v3.1—No exploit No fix recorded

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 21/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.48% (FIRST EPSS).
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
According to CISA the attack is automatable: targets can be found by mass scanning.
According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.
Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).

Low priority for now. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

This issue was addressed by restricting options offered on a locked device. This issue is fixed in iOS 18 and iPadOS 18. An attacker may be able to see recent photos without authentication in Assistive Access.

Published: Sep 16, 2024
Updated: Jun 17, 2026
EPSS: 0.4% · 42th percentile
CWE: CWE-862

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Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 21 / 40 · 5.3 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.4%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical impact: partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

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Vendor	Product	CPE
apple	ipados	cpe:2.3:o:apple:ipados
apple	iphone os	cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (apple). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

Apple iOS and iPadOS
- before 18affected

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

apple ipadosbefore 18.0
apple iphone osbefore 18.0

Same product

apple: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

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CVE-2023-32434An integer overflow was addressed with improved input validation.KEV
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Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2024-40844Sep 16, 2024 · A privacy issue was addressed with improved handling of temporary files.
22Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2024-40850Sep 16, 2024 · A file access issue was addressed with improved input validation.
22Monitor
Later →CVE-2024-40856Sep 16, 2024 · An integrity issue was addressed with Beacon Protection.
30Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

CVE-2025-31182196 days apartThis issue was addressed with improved handling of symlinks.
39Monitor
CVE-2025-30448238 days apartThis issue was addressed with additional entitlement checks.
36Monitor
CVE-2025-43329364 days apartA permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions.
35Monitor
CVE-2025-43358364 days apartA permissions issue was addressed with additional sandbox restrictions.
35Monitor
CVE-2026-20626513 days apartThis issue was addressed with improved checks.
31Monitor
CVE-2023-27963497 days apartThe issue was addressed with additional permissions checks.
30Monitor

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

CVE-2023-4039649 days apartThe issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
31Monitor
CVE-2024-40771121 days apartThe issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
31Monitor
CVE-2024-2787149 days apartA path handling issue was addressed with improved validation.
22Monitor
CVE-2024-54535121 days apartA path handling issue was addressed with improved logic.
17Monitor