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CVE-2023-40451
This issue was addressed with improved iframe sandbox enforcement. This issue is fixed in Safari 17. An attacker with JavaScript execution…
- 8.8HighCVSS base score
- 1.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 34% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
This issue was addressed with improved iframe sandbox enforcement. This issue is fixed in Safari 17. An attacker with JavaScript execution may be able to execute arbitrary code.
Timeline
ID reserved
By apple
- 43 days later
· 43 days later
Published
- 17 months later
· 17 months 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 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.1% · top 34% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Affected products
References
References5
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213941 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/28/3 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Oct/2 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-33 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://webkitgtk.org/security/WSA-2023-0009.html (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-2023-45022 (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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