Security Resilience

CVE-2023-42894

Apple Macos 12.0.0 – 12.7.2

Published
12 December 2023
Modified
04 November 2025
Patch / advisory
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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 0.0031 22th percentile
Risk Priority 42 floored blend · peak EPSS

CVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.

Summary

CVE-2023-42894 is a medium-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Apple Macos. Its CVSS base score is 5.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 22th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

This issue was addressed with improved redaction of sensitive information. This issue is fixed in macOS Sonoma 14.2, macOS Ventura 13.6.3, macOS Monterey 12.7.2. An app may be able to access information about a user's contacts.

CWE(s)
NVD-CWE-noinfo

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Affected Assets

apple
macos
12.0.0 — 12.7.2 · 13.0 — 13.6.3 · 14.0 — 14.2

Mitigating Controls

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

References