CVE-2023-42870

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 High
Published: Jan 10, 2024
Updated: Nov 4, 2025
Reserved: Sep 14, 2023

Description

A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management. This issue is fixed in macOS Sonoma 14, iOS 17 and iPadOS 17. An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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
macOSApple	before 14Affected

References

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213938
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213940
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213940
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213938

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