Physical disclosure of Lock Screen notification contents
Published Jan 15, 2025 · Updated Apr 2, 2026
Information disclosure in the Status Bar in Apple iOS and iPadOS before 17.5 allows physically proximate attackers to view Lock Screen notifications. The Status Bar's Lock Screen state management exposes notification contents without requiring device authentication. Physical access to a supported device is required, and the reported consequence is limited to reading displayed notification contents.
Summary
What happened
Information disclosure in the Status Bar in Apple iOS and iPadOS before 17.5 allows physically proximate attackers to view Lock Screen notifications. The Status Bar's Lock Screen state management exposes notification contents without requiring device authentication. Physical access to a supported device is required, and the reported consequence is limited to reading displayed notification contents.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-40839
- Published
- Jan 15, 2025
- Updated
- Apr 2, 2026
- Vendor
- Apple
- Product
- iOS and iPadOS
- Classifications
- CWE-862
- Attack vector
- physical
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jan 15, 2025CVE 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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