Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-32412

Critical

Published: 23 June 2023

Published
23 June 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0094 76.6th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-32412 is a critical-severity Use After Free (CWE-416) vulnerability in Apple Macos. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 23.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management. This issue is fixed in watchOS 9.5, tvOS 16.5, macOS Ventura 13.4, iOS 15.7.6 and iPadOS 15.7.6, macOS Big Sur 11.7.7, macOS Monterey 12.6.6, iOS 16.5 and iPadOS 16.5. A remote…

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attacker may be able to cause unexpected app termination or arbitrary code execution.

CWE(s)
CWE-416

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

apple
ipados
≤ 15.7.6 · 16.0 — 16.5
apple
iphone os
≤ 15.7.6 · 16.0 — 16.5
apple
macos
11.0 — 11.7.7 · 12.0 — 12.6.6 · 13.0 — 13.4
apple
tvos
≤ 16.5
apple
watchos
≤ 9.5

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

SI-16 Memory Protection
addresses: CWE-416

Use-after-free exploits that achieve arbitrary code execution are blocked or significantly hardened by non-executable pages and ASLR.

References