Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-42852

High

Published: 25 October 2023

Published
25 October 2023
Modified
05 May 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0217 84.7th percentile
Risk Priority 19 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-42852 is a high-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Apple Ipados. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 15.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A logic issue was addressed with improved checks. This issue is fixed in iOS 17.1 and iPadOS 17.1, watchOS 10.1, iOS 16.7.2 and iPadOS 16.7.2, macOS Sonoma 14.1, Safari 17.1, tvOS 17.1. Processing web content may lead to arbitrary code…

more

execution.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

apple
safari
≤ 17.1
apple
ipados
≤ 16.7.2 · 17.0 — 17.1
apple
iphone os
≤ 16.7.2 · 17.0 — 17.1
apple
macos
14.0 — 14.1
apple
tvos
≤ 17.1
apple
watchos
≤ 10.1
fedoraproject
fedora
37
debian
debian linux
11.0, 12.0

Mitigating Controls

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

References