CVE-2023-40438: Apple iPadOS

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was addressed with improved handling of temporary files. This issue is fixed in macOS Sonoma 14, iOS 16.7 and iPadOS 16.7. An app may be able to access edited photos saved to a temporary directory.

Affected products

• Apple iPadOS: before 16.7 (fixed in 16.7)
• Apple iPhone OS: before 16.7 (fixed in 16.7)
• Apple macOS: before 14.0 (fixed in 14.0)

Published 2024-01-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.