CVE-2023-42824

high · 7.8Actively exploited

On the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Added 2023-10-05Remediation due 2023-10-26

The issue was addressed with improved checks. This issue is fixed in iOS 16.7.1 and iPadOS 16.7.1. A local attacker may be able to elevate their privileges. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited against versions of iOS before iOS 16.6.

7.8

CVSS

0.9%

EPSS (exploit prob.)

59th

EPSS percentile

2023-10-04

Published

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
apple	ipados	< 16.7.1
apple	ipados	>= 17.0, < 17.0.3
apple	iphone_os	< 16.7.1
apple	iphone_os	>= 17.0, < 17.0.3

Check a specific version with /api/v1/cve/match.

References

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213972
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213972
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213961
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213972
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2023-42824

Query this programmatically:

curl https://evil-db.io/api/v1/cve/CVE-2023-42824