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CVE-2023-42844This issue was addressed with improved handling of symlinks. This issue is fixed in macOS Sonoma 14.1, macOS Monterey 12.7.1, macOS…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 1.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 22% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
This issue was addressed with improved handling of symlinks. This issue is fixed in macOS Sonoma 14.1, macOS Monterey 12.7.1, macOS Ventura 13.6.1. A website may be able to access sensitive user data when resolving symlinks.
Timeline
ID reserved
By apple
- 41 days later
· 41 days later
Published
- 16 months later
· 16 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 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.7% · top 22% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
References
References9
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213984 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213985 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213983 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213984 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213985 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213983 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Oct/21 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Oct/24 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Oct/26 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
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-2023-47265 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2023-42844)Record last updated .