CVE-2023-42942

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-59 Link Following

Publication date:

21/02/2024

Last modified:

14/03/2025

Description

This issue was addressed with improved handling of symlinks. This issue is fixed in watchOS 10.1, macOS Sonoma 14.1, tvOS 17.1, iOS 16.7.2 and iPadOS 16.7.2, iOS 17.1 and iPadOS 17.1, macOS Ventura 13.6.1. A malicious app may be able to gain root privileges.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.80 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

7.80

Severity 3.x

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:apple:ipad_os::::::::		16.7.2 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:apple:ipados:17.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os::::::::		16.7.2 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:17.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:apple:macos::::::::	13.0 (including)	13.6.1 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:apple:macos:14.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:apple:tvos::::::::		17.1 (including)
cpe:2.3:o:apple:watchos::::::::		10.1 (excluding)

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CVE-2023-42942

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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