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CVE-2023-40414
A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management. This issue is fixed in watchOS 10, iOS 17 and iPadOS 17, tvOS 17,…
Critical9.8EPSS 1.2%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- apple
Description
A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management. This issue is fixed in watchOS 10, iOS 17 and iPadOS 17, tvOS 17, macOS Sonoma 14, Safari 17. Processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution.
Timeline
ID reserved
By apple
- 5 months later
· 5 months later
Published
- 18 months later
· 18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.2% · top 33% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Weakness
- Processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution
- CWE-416 Use After Free (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-416 and its CVEs
Affected products
References (6)
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213938 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213936 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213941 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213940 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213937 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/02/05/8 (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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