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CVE-2023-40441A resource exhaustion issue was addressed with improved input validation. This issue is fixed in iOS 17 and iPadOS 17, macOS Sonoma 14.…
- 6.5MediumCVSS base score
- 1.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 33% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A resource exhaustion issue was addressed with improved input validation. This issue is fixed in iOS 17 and iPadOS 17, macOS Sonoma 14. Processing web content may lead to a denial-of-service.
Timeline
ID reserved
By apple
- 43 days later
· 43 days later
Published
- 2 years later
· 2 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.1% · top 33% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Affected products
- affected unspecified – < 17
- affected unspecified – < 14
References
References6
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213938 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213940 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Oct/8 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Oct/3 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213940 (opens in a new tab)
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213938 (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2023-45012 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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