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CVE-2023-42844
This issue was addressed with improved handling of symlinks. This issue is fixed in macOS Sonoma 14.1, macOS Monterey 12.7.1, macOS…
High7.5EPSS 1.7%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- apple
Description
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.7% · top 22% 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 7.5.
Weakness
- A website may be able to access sensitive user data when resolving symlinks
- CWE-59 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-59 and its CVEs
Affected products
References (9)
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213984 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213985 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213983 (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/HT213985 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213983 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Oct/21 (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/26 (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-2023-42844)Record last updated .