CVE-2024-27876

Published Sep 17, 2024

Last updated 9 months ago

CVSS medium 5.5
Apple
macOS

Overview

AI description

Automated description summarized from trusted sources.

CVE-2024-27876 is a race condition vulnerability that affects multiple Apple operating systems. It resides in the Archive Handler component of visionOS, but also impacts macOS Ventura, iOS, iPadOS, macOS Sonoma, and macOS Sequoia. The vulnerability occurs when unpacking a maliciously crafted archive, potentially allowing an attacker to write arbitrary files. This issue was resolved through improved locking mechanisms in the patched versions of the operating systems.

Description
A race condition was addressed with improved locking. This issue is fixed in macOS Ventura 13.7, iOS 17.7 and iPadOS 17.7, visionOS 2, iOS 18 and iPadOS 18, macOS Sonoma 14.7, macOS Sequoia 15. Unpacking a maliciously crafted archive may allow an attacker to write arbitrary files.
Source
product-security@apple.com
NVD status
Analyzed
Products
ipados, iphone_os, macos, visionos

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Primary
Base score
5.5
Impact score
3.6
Exploitability score
1.8
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Severity
MEDIUM

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-362
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
CWE-362

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending
  1. writeup for CVE-2024-27876, a fun libAppleArchive bug I discovered back in April last year! I've also supplied an exploit maker for making a malformed aar to write to an arbitrary file. https://t.co/wKCPpYqKex Exploit to escape the app sandbox: 1. Drop the exploit.aar from a

    @minacrissDev_

    23 May 2025

    2451 Impressions

    7 Retweets

    36 Likes

    11 Bookmarks

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  2. current status with CVE-2024-27876. potential on-device arb. write bug for iOS 15-17.6.1 (patched in 17.7). think "sparserestore without the backup". huge thx to @0xilis for finding the vuln and helping me figure out a lot of this. details subject to change.

    @minacrissDev_

    14 May 2025

    286 Impressions

    3 Retweets

    6 Likes

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  3. 🧵 Here's the state of jailbreaking on iOS as of April 2025. [Thread] The situation is more complicated than ever for those of you running newer devices. While there are various vulnerabilities currently available, and some of them (i.e., CVE-2024-27876) might even b

    @FCE365

    29 Apr 2025

    12013 Impressions

    9 Retweets

    90 Likes

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  4. Top 5 Trending CVEs: 1 - CVE-2025-43859 2 - CVE-2025-31324 3 - CVE-2024-27876 4 - CVE-2025-32432 5 - CVE-2025-29306 #cve #cvetrends #cveshield #cybersecurity https://t.co/4Fua3CAN6W

    @CVEShield

    27 Apr 2025

    15 Impressions

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  5. Threat Alert: CVE-2024-2787: Apple Archive Flaw Enables Arbitrary File Write and Gatekeeper By CVE-2024-27876 Severity: 🔴 High Maturity: 🧨 Trending Learn more: https://t.co/nME0jauXjk #CyberSecurity #ThreatIntel #InfoSec (1/3)

    @fletch_ai

    27 Apr 2025

    55 Impressions

    0 Retweets

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    1 Reply

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  6. current status with CVE-2024-27876. potential on-device arb. write bug for iOS 15-17.6.1 (patched in 17.7). think "sparserestore without the backup". huge thx to @0xilis for finding the vuln and helping me figure out a lot of this. details subject to change. https://t.co/BVH9i9PJ

    @skadz108

    26 Apr 2025

    3377 Impressions

    10 Retweets

    54 Likes

    13 Bookmarks

    2 Replies

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  7. Fun fact: CVE-2024-27876 may have been the entire reason I added the -raw_aar flag to shortcut-sign for people to sign .aars to be opened in the Shortcuts application lol Well, not entire reason, but it was a big part of it

    @0xilis

    26 Apr 2025

    3343 Impressions

    6 Retweets

    42 Likes

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  8. Wasn't expecting much attention on CVE-2024-27876, but thankfully I was wrong :D For some reason seems like a lot of the people are jailbreakers, for you uh, here's a tweak to patch it if you want https://t.co/Td8FCiuRXi

    @minacrissDev_

    25 Apr 2025

    285 Impressions

    1 Retweet

    3 Likes

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  9. Wasn't expecting much attention on CVE-2024-27876, but thankfully I was wrong :D For some reason seems like a lot of the people are jailbreakers, for you uh, here's a tweak to patch it if you want https://t.co/fymsQLIQzg

    @0xilis

    25 Apr 2025

    3511 Impressions

    12 Retweets

    58 Likes

    12 Bookmarks

    1 Reply

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  10. https://t.co/sTMPPqezFJ I'm excited to announce a writeup for CVE-2024-27876, a fun libAppleArchive bug I discovered back in April last year! I've also supplied an exploit maker for making a malformed aar to write to an arbitrary file.

    @0xilis

    23 Apr 2025

    39086 Impressions

    31 Retweets

    171 Likes

    56 Bookmarks

    4 Replies

    9 Quotes

  11. 🔴 #macOS, #iOS, iPadOS Vulnerability: Race Condition in Archive Unpacking (#CVE-2024-27876 - Critical) https://t.co/nCTvRvzYIY

    @dailycve

    12 Dec 2024

    36 Impressions

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