CVE-2023-23520

State: Published
Severity: 5.9 Medium
Published: Feb 27, 2023
Updated: Mar 11, 2025
Reserved: Jan 12, 2023

Description

A race condition was addressed with additional validation. This issue is fixed in watchOS 9.3, tvOS 16.3, macOS Ventura 13.2, iOS 16.3 and iPadOS 16.3. A user may be able to read arbitrary files as root.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.9 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-367 Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

Affected Products

Product	Versions
iOS and iPadOSApple	before 16.3Affected
tvOSApple	before 16.3Affected
macOSApple	before 13.2Affected
watchOSApple	before 9.3Affected

References

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213606
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213601
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213605
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213599

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