Security Resilience

CVE-2023-42956

Apple Safari ≤ 17.2

Published
28 March 2024
Modified
21 November 2024
Patch / advisory
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.5
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0098 62th percentile
Risk Priority 52 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-2023-42956 is a medium-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Apple Safari. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 38% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

The issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in Safari 17.2, iOS 17.2 and iPadOS 17.2, macOS Sonoma 14.2. Processing web content may lead to a denial-of-service.

CWE(s)
NVD-CWE-noinfo

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Affected Assets

apple
safari
≤ 17.2
apple
ipados
≤ 17.2
apple
iphone os
≤ 17.2
apple
macos
14.0 — 14.2

Mitigating Controls

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

References