Apple fixed actively exploited zero-day CVE-2024-23222

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Apple released security updates to address a zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-23222, that impacts iPhones, Macs, and Apple TVs. This is the first actively exploited zero-day vulnerability fixed by the company this year.

The vulnerability is a type confusion issue that resides in the WebKit, an attacker can exploit this issue by tricking the victims into visiting maliciously crafted web content to achieve arbitrary code execution.

“Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution.” reads the advisory published by the company. “Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited.”

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