Local privilege escalation through undisclosed checks
Published Jun 10, 2024 · Updated Apr 2, 2026
Privilege escalation in Apple libiconv across affected platform releases allows local users to gain elevated privileges through a device app. Apple identifies improved checks as the correction but has not published the checked condition, affected function, or rejected input. Reachability requires an app already running on the device, and the documented consequence is privilege elevation rather than remote compromise.
Summary
What happened
Privilege escalation in Apple libiconv across affected platform releases allows local users to gain elevated privileges through a device app. Apple identifies improved checks as the correction but has not published the checked condition, affected function, or rejected input. Reachability requires an app already running on the device, and the documented consequence is privilege elevation rather than remote compromise.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-27811
- Published
- Jun 10, 2024
- Updated
- Apr 2, 2026
- Vendor
- Apple
- Product
- iOS
- Classifications
- CWE-269, T1068
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jun 10, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 2, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <17.5
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