Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-42982

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 6.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0043 63.1th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-42982 is a medium-severity Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125) vulnerability in Apple Macos. Its CVSS base score is 6.4 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 36.9% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Processing a file may lead to a denial-of-service or potentially disclose memory contents. This issue is fixed in macOS 14. The issue was addressed with improved checks.

CWE(s)
CWE-125

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

apple
macos
≤ 14.0

Mitigating Controls

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

References