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CVE-2023-40408
An inconsistent user interface issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in macOS Sonoma 14.1, watchOS 10.1,…
Medium5.3EPSS 1.2%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- apple
Description
An inconsistent user interface issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in macOS Sonoma 14.1, watchOS 10.1, iOS 16.7.2 and iPadOS 16.7.2, iOS 17.1 and iPadOS 17.1. Hide My Email may be deactivated unexpectedly.
Timeline
ID reserved
By apple
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 16 months later
· 16 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.2% · top 31% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.
Weakness
- Hide My Email may be deactivated unexpectedly
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-400 and its CVEs
Affected products
- affected unspecified – < 16.7
- affected unspecified – < 14.1
- affected unspecified – < 10.1
- affected unspecified – < 17.1
References (12)
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213981 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213984 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213988 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213982 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213982 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213984 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213988 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213981 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Oct/23 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Oct/19 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Oct/24 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Oct/25 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2023-40408)Record last updated .