Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-42947

High

Published: 28 March 2024

Published
28 March 2024
Modified
04 November 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 8.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0005 17.1th percentile
Risk Priority 17 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-42947 is a high-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability in Apple Macos. Its CVSS base score is 8.6 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 17.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A path handling issue was addressed with improved validation. This issue is fixed in macOS Monterey 12.7.2, macOS Ventura 13.6.3, iOS 17.2 and iPadOS 17.2, tvOS 17.2, watchOS 10.2, macOS Sonoma 14.2. An app may be able to break out…

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of its sandbox.

CWE(s)
NVD-CWE-noinfoCWE-22

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

apple
ipados
≤ 17.2
apple
iphone os
≤ 17.2
apple
macos
12.0 — 12.7.2 · 13.0 — 13.6.3 · 14.0 — 14.2
apple
tvos
≤ 17.2
apple
watchos
≤ 10.2

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-22

Validates pathnames and filenames to prevent traversal outside intended directories.

References