CVE-2023-40438

State: Published
Severity: 5.5 Medium
Published: Jan 10, 2024
Updated: Nov 4, 2025
Reserved: Aug 14, 2023

Description

An issue was addressed with improved handling of temporary files. This issue is fixed in macOS Sonoma 14, iOS 16.7 and iPadOS 16.7. An app may be able to access edited photos saved to a temporary directory.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-379 Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Insecure Permissions

Affected Products

Product	Versions
iOS and iPadOSApple	before 16.7Affected
macOSApple	before 14Affected

References

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213927
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213940
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213940
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213927

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