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CVE-2023-40448
The issue was addressed with improved handling of protocols. This issue is fixed in tvOS 17, iOS 16.7 and iPadOS 16.7, watchOS 10, iOS 17…
High8.6EPSS 2.2%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- apple
Description
The issue was addressed with improved handling of protocols. This issue is fixed in tvOS 17, iOS 16.7 and iPadOS 16.7, watchOS 10, iOS 17 and iPadOS 17, macOS Sonoma 14. A remote attacker may be able to break out of Web Content sandbox.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.2% · top 18% of all CVEs (6 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: High 8.6.
Weakness
- A remote attacker may be able to break out of Web Content sandbox
Affected products
- affected unspecified – < 17
- affected unspecified – < 16.7
- affected unspecified – < 17
- affected unspecified – < 14
- affected unspecified – < 10
References (14)
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213938 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213927 (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/HT213940 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213937 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Oct/10 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Oct/8 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Oct/3 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Oct/4 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213940 (opens in a new tab)
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213927 (opens in a new tab)
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213938 (opens in a new tab)
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213937 (opens in a new tab)
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213936 (opens in a new tab)
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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