THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2019-8624
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2019-8624

Watchos vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
6.9%
EPSS pct
93th
Exploited
No known
An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation. This issue is fixed in watchOS 5.3. A remote attacker may be able to leak memory.
Affected vendor
Apple
Affected product
Watchos
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2019-12-18

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality.

Its EPSS score of 6.9% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 93% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2019-8624

  • Confirm whether Apple Watchos is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2019-8624.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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