Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-42872

Apple Safari ≤ 17.0

Published
10 January 2024
Modified
04 November 2025
Patch / advisory
CVSS Score v3.1 5.5
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0020 10th percentile
Risk Priority 35 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2023-42872 is a medium-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Apple Safari. Its CVSS base score is 5.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 10th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

The issue was addressed with additional permissions checks. This issue is fixed in macOS Sonoma 14, iOS 17 and iPadOS 17. An app may be able to access sensitive user data.

CWE(s)

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Affected Assets

apple
safari
≤ 17.0
apple
ipados
≤ 17.0
apple
iphone os
≤ 17.0
apple
macos
≤ 14.0

Mitigating Controls

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

References