CVE-2023-23520mediumCWE-367

CVE-2023-23520: medium-severity vulnerability in Apple watchOS

Published 27 Feb 2023 · Updated 11 Mar 2025

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13Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 5.9epss 0.8%

A race condition was addressed with additional validation. This issue is fixed in watchOS 9.3, tvOS 16.3, macOS Ventura 13.2, iOS 16.3 and iPadOS 16.3. A user may be able to read arbitrary files as root.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected products

Apple · iOS and iPadOS Apple · macOS Apple · tvOS Apple · watchOS

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References

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213599 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213601 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213605 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213606