CVE-2023-40388
Medium
Published: 27 September 2023
Published
27 September 2023
Modified
04 November 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1
4.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score
0.0039
60.2th percentile
Risk Priority
9
60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS
Summary
CVE-2023-40388 is a medium-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Apple Macos. Its CVSS base score is 4.3 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 39.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-44959
Vulnerability details
A privacy issue was addressed with improved handling of temporary files. This issue is fixed in macOS Sonoma 14. Safari may save photos to an unprotected location.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
apple
macos
≤ 14.0
Mitigating Controls
No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.