Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-42961

Medium

Published: 11 April 2025

Published
11 April 2025
Modified
21 April 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0022 44.8th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-42961 is a medium-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability in Apple Macos. Its CVSS base score is 6.3 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 44.8th 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 iOS 17 and iPadOS 17, iOS 16.7 and iPadOS 16.7, macOS Sonoma 14, macOS Ventura 13.6, macOS Monterey 12.7. A sandboxed process may be able to…

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circumvent sandbox restrictions.

CWE(s)
CWE-22

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

apple
ipados
≤ 16.7
apple
iphone os
≤ 16.7
apple
macos
12.0 — 12.7 · 13.0 — 13.6

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