CVE-2023-42970

State: Published
Severity: 8.8 High
Published: Apr 11, 2025
Updated: Feb 26, 2026
Reserved: Sep 14, 2023

Description

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

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/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
watchOSApple	before 10Affected
tvOSApple	before 17Affected
SafariApple	before 17Affected

References

https://support.apple.com/en-us/120949
https://support.apple.com/en-us/120950
https://support.apple.com/en-us/120948
https://support.apple.com/en-us/120947
https://support.apple.com/en-us/120330

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