CVE-2023-40414

State: Published
Severity: 9.8 Critical
Published: Jan 10, 2024
Updated: Jun 20, 2025
Reserved: Aug 14, 2023

Description

A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management. This issue is fixed in watchOS 10, iOS 17 and iPadOS 17, tvOS 17, macOS Sonoma 14, Safari 17. Processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	9.8 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-416 Use After Free

Affected Products

Product	Versions
iOS and iPadOSApple	before 17Affected
tvOSApple	before 17Affected
SafariApple	before 17Affected
macOSApple	before 14Affected
watchOSApple	before 10Affected

References

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213938
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213936
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213941
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213940
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213937
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/02/05/8

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