Privacy bypass in Apple iOS/iPadOS/macOS allowing root app access to keyboard input and location without consent
CVE-2024-44123 is a permissions enforcement issue in Apple platforms that was addressed by adding additional restrictions. According to Apple’s advisory text, a malicious application already running with root privileges could access sensitive user data—specifically keyboard input and location information—without obtaining user consent. The issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15, iOS 18, and iPadOS 18.
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Impact, mitigation & remediation
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Impact
What an attacker gets, and what they’ve been doing with it.
Mitigation
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Remediation
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Exploits
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No public exploit code observed for this vulnerability.
Affected products & vendors
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Vendor-confirmed product mapping. Mallory continuously reconciles this list against your asset inventory.
Recent activity
2 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
A Sidecar-related lock screen bypass on macOS when Sidecar is enabled; addressed via improved state management.
Permissions issue allowing a root-privileged malicious app to access keyboard input and location without user consent.
The version that knows your environment.
Query your assets running an affected version, and investigate the blast radius.
Every observed campaign linking this CVE to a named adversary.
Malware families riding this exploit, with evidence and IOCs.
YARA, Sigma, Snort, and vendor rules, auto-deployed to your SIEM.
Cross-references every affected SKU, including bundled OEM variants.
Community discussion across Reddit, Mastodon, and other social sources.