The issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in Safari 17.2, macOS Sonoma 14.2, iOS 17.2 and iPadOS 17.2,…

Description

The issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in Safari 17.2, macOS Sonoma 14.2, iOS 17.2 and iPadOS 17.2, watchOS 10.2, tvOS 17.2, iOS 16.7.3 and iPadOS 16.7.3. Processing an image may lead to a denial-of-service.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.72% · top 46% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.

Weakness

• Processing an image may lead to a denial-of-service

Affected products

• Apple · Safari

  • affected unspecified – < 17.2

• Apple · iOS and iPadOS

  • affected unspecified – < 17.2

• Apple · iOS and iPadOS

  • affected unspecified – < 16.7

• Apple · tvOS

  • affected unspecified – < 17.2

• Apple · macOS

  • affected unspecified – < 14.2

• Apple · watchOS

  • affected unspecified – < 10.2

References (16)

• https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT214039 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
• https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT214035 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
• https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT214034 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
• https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT214040 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
• https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT214036 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
• https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT214041 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
• https://support.apple.com/kb/HT214034 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
• https://support.apple.com/kb/HT214039 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Dec/9 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Dec/7 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Dec/8 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Dec/6 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Dec/13 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Dec/12 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/18/1 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
• https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5580 (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)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2023-42883](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2023-42883.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2023-42883)

Record last updated 13 Feb 2025, 17:12 UTC.