CVE-2023-40448

highpriority · attend · 45EPSS 0.022 · 82 %ileexploit · PoCDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

1 exploit · PoC

Likely / severe?

2.18% (82nd) EPSS

CVSS 8.6 · high

Is it mine?

18 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cert_bund · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-26

The issue was addressed with improved handling of protocols. This issue is fixed in tvOS 17, iOS 16.7 and iPadOS 16.7, watchOS 10, iOS 17 and iPadOS 17, macOS Sonoma 14. A remote attacker may be able to break out of Web Content sandbox.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

8.6

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.18.6highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 4

v3.18.1highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N/E:Psecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical Impact: partialcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-269USLLM-inferred

exploits (1)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

w0wbox/CVE-2023-40448poc for CVE-2023-40448 (under construction) ,This could probably be a piece for a jailbreakPoC · poc_in_github

affected products (18)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Apple iOS <16.7all versionscert_bundDE
Apple iOS <17all versionscert_bundDE
Apple iPadOS <16.7all versionscert_bundDE
Apple iPadOS <17all versionscert_bundDE
Apple IOS< 16.7cert_bundDE
Apple IOS< 17cert_bundDE
Apple iPadOS< 16.7cert_bundDE
Apple iPadOS< 17cert_bundDE
Apple iOS and iPadOSunspecified → 16.7enisa_euvdEU
Apple iOS and iPadOSunspecified → 17enisa_euvdEU
Apple macOSunspecified → 14enisa_euvdEU
Apple tvOSunspecified → 17enisa_euvdEU
Apple watchOSunspecified → 10enisa_euvdEU
apple ipados< 16.7nvdUScpe:2.3:o:apple:ipados:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
apple iphone os< 16.7nvdUScpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
apple macos< 14.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:apple:macos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
apple tvos< 17.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:apple:tvos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
apple watchos< 10.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:apple:watchos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2023-2453Apple macOS: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2023-09-26csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter oder lokaler Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Apple macOS ausnutzen, um beliebigen Code auszuführen, Sicherheitsmaßnahmen zu umgehen, vertrauliche Informationen offenzulegen, einen Denial-of-Service-Zustand herbeizuführen, seine Rechte zu erweitern oder Daten zu manipulieren.
WID-SEC-W-2023-2454Apple iOS und iPadOS: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2023-09-26csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Apple iOS und Apple iPadOS ausnutzen, um beliebigen Code auszuführen, Sicherheitsmaßnahmen zu umgehen, einen Denial-of-Service-Zustand herbeizuführen, vertrauliche Informationen preiszugeben, Dateien zu manipulieren oder seine Privilegien zu erweitern.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd cert_bund nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2023-09-27modified 2026-06-17

references (31)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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