CVE-2018-4318: apple icloud Use After Free

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2018-4318 is a high (CVSS 8.8) Use After Free vulnerability in apple icloud. EPSS estimates a 9.35% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95.3% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Timeline

1. 03-04-2019
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 05-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management. This issue affected versions prior to iOS 12, tvOS 12, Safari 12, iTunes 12.9 for Windows, iCloud for Windows 7.7.

• CWE-416Use After FreeThe product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.