CVE-2023-42838

highpriority · track · 34EPSS 0.002 · 9 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.20% (9th) EPSS

CVSS 8.6 · high

Is it mine?

6 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · cert_bund

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

An access issue was addressed with improvements to the sandbox. This issue is fixed in macOS Ventura 13.6.3, macOS Sonoma 14.1, macOS Monterey 12.7.2. An app may be able to execute arbitrary code out of its sandbox or with certain elevated privileges.

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:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.8 · impact 6

v3.18.2highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.18.2highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondaryexploitability 1.5 · impact 6

v3.17.9highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

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

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical Impact: totalcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-284US

affected products (6)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Apple macOSunspecified → 12.7enisa_euvdEU
Apple macOSunspecified → 13.6enisa_euvdEU
Apple macOSunspecified → 14.1enisa_euvdEU
apple macos12.0 → 12.7.2nvdUScpe:2.3:o:apple:macos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
apple macos13.0 → 13.6.3nvdUScpe:2.3:o:apple:macos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
apple macos= 14.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:apple:macos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2023-2753Apple macOS: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2023-10-25csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Apple macOS ausnutzen, um beliebigen Code auszuführen, einen Denial-of-Service-Zustand zu verursachen, Sicherheitsmaßnahmen zu umgehen oder vertrauliche Informationen offenzulegen.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd cert_bund NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2024-02-21modified 2026-06-17

references (14)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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