CVE-2023-42844

CVE-2023-42844: vulnerability in Apple macOS

Published 25 Oct 2023 · Updated 13 Feb 2025

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3Vexday Risk Score

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

ssvc Trackepss 1.7%

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.

Affected products

Apple · macOS

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References

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Oct/21 http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Oct/24 http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Oct/26 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213983 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213984 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213985 https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213983 https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213984 https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213985