medium severity · exploited in the wild · published 2024-05-14
An attacker who can already read and write memory in the browser can bypass pointer authentication, a protection that blocks code injection. It is already being exploited in the wild.
Fixed in: 17.5
CVE: CVE-2024-27834
Source: Apple
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