CVE-2024-44276
Published: 17 March 2025
Description
Adversaries may passively sniff network traffic to capture information about an environment, including authentication material passed over the network.
Security Summary
CVE-2024-44276 is a vulnerability involving the cleartext transmission of sensitive information over the network, classified as CWE-319 (Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information). It affects Apple iOS and iPadOS versions prior to 18.2.
The vulnerability has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N). A user in a privileged network position can exploit it over the network with low attack complexity, low privileges required, and user interaction, potentially leaking sensitive information with high confidentiality and integrity impacts.
Apple's advisory states that the issue was addressed in iOS 18.2 and iPadOS 18.2 by using HTTPS when sending information over the network. Additional details are available at https://support.apple.com/en-us/121837.
Details
- CWE(s)
Affected Products
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques
Why these techniques?
The cleartext transmission of sensitive information (CWE-319) directly enables adversaries in a privileged network position to capture data via network sniffing, as the lack of encryption (fixed by HTTPS) makes traffic readable without additional effort.