CVE-2023-42844 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

This issue was addressed with improved handling of symlinks. This issue is fixed in macOS Sonoma 14.1, macOS Monterey 12.7.1, macOS Ventura 13.6.1. A website may be able to access sensitive user data when resolving symlinks.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00342.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Apple	Macos

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:apple:macos::::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:apple:macos::::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:apple:macos::::::::

No data.

No data.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Oct/21
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Oct/24
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Oct/26
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213983
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213984
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213985
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213983
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213984
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213985

History

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 18:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
CPEs		cpe:2.3:o:apple:macos:-:::::::*
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: apple

Published: 2023-10-25T18:32:19.913Z

Updated: 2025-02-13T17:09:48.527Z

Reserved: 2023-09-14T19:05:11.450Z

Link: CVE-2023-42844

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T19:30:24.581Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-10-25T19:15:10.537

Modified: 2024-11-21T08:23:20.950

Link: CVE-2023-42844

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

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