CVE-2023-41991

State: Published
Severity: 5.5 Medium
Published: Sep 21, 2023
Updated: Nov 4, 2025
Reserved: Sep 6, 2023

Description

A certificate validation issue was addressed. This issue is fixed in macOS Ventura 13.6, iOS 16.7 and iPadOS 16.7. A malicious app may be able to bypass signature validation. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited against versions of iOS before iOS 16.7.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation

Affected Products

Product	Versions
iOS and iPadOSApple	before 16.7Affected
macOSApple	before 13.6Affected

References

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213927
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213931
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213931
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213927
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2023-41991government-resource

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