CVE-2023-41979: Apple macOS

Medium severity, CVSS 4.7. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A race condition was addressed with improved locking. This issue is fixed in macOS Sonoma 14. An app may be able to modify protected parts of the file system.

Affected products

• Apple macOS: before 14.0 (fixed in 14.0)

Published 2023-09-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.