CVE-2023-41983

moderate-risk

Published 2023-10-25

The issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in macOS Sonoma 14.1, Safari 17.1, iOS 16.7.2 and iPadOS 16.7.2, iOS 17.1 and iPadOS 17.1. Processing web content may lead to a denial-of-service.

Do I need to act?

1.3% chance of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS score — moderate exploit probability

Not on CISA KEV list

No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA

Patch status unknown

Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance

CVSS 6.5/10 Medium

NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (9)

Safari

Ipados

Iphone Os

Macos

Fedora

Debian Linux

Affected Vendors

Debian Apple Fedoraproject

References (30)

Mailing List http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Oct/19

Mailing List http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Oct/23

Mailing List http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Oct/24

Mailing List http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Oct/27

Mailing List http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/11/15/1

Mailing List https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproje...

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-33

Release Notes https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213981

Release Notes https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213982

Release Notes https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213984

Release Notes https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213986

Vendor Advisory https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213984

Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5557

Mailing List http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Oct/19

Mailing List http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Oct/23

Mailing List http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Oct/24

Mailing List http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Oct/27

Mailing List http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/11/15/1

and 10 more references

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moderate-risk

Severity 24/34 · High

Exploitability 4/34 · Minimal

Exposure 15/34 · Moderate