Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-40454

Apple Macos 12.0.0 – 12.7

Published
27 September 2023
Modified
04 November 2025
Patch / advisory
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.1
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0037 29th percentile
Risk Priority 55 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2023-40454 is a high-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Apple Macos. Its CVSS base score is 7.1 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 29th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions. This issue is fixed in macOS Ventura 13.6, tvOS 17, iOS 16.7 and iPadOS 16.7, macOS Monterey 12.7, watchOS 10, iOS 17 and iPadOS 17, macOS Sonoma 14. An app may be…

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able to delete files for which it does not have permission.

CWE(s)
NVD-CWE-noinfo

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Affected Assets

apple
ipados
≤ 16.7
apple
iphone os
≤ 16.7
apple
macos
12.0.0 — 12.7 · 13.0 — 13.6
apple
tvos
≤ 17.0
apple
watchos
≤ 10.0

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References