CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2024-44192 — The issue was addressed with improved checks

Medium CVSS 6.5

The issue was addressed with improved checks. This issue is fixed in Safari 18, iOS 18 and iPadOS 18, macOS Sequoia 15, tvOS 18, visionOS 2, watchOS 11. Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
6.5 (3.1)
Published
2025-03-10
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
apple/platform
Weaknesses
CWE-400

Affected products

  • apple / safari
  • apple / iphone_os
  • apple / macos
  • apple / tvos
  • apple / visionos
  • apple / watchos

Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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