CVE-2023-41983: Apple iPadOS

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Apple iPadOS: before 16.7.2 (fixed in 16.7.2); from 17.0, before 17.1 (fixed in 17.1)
• Apple iPhone OS: before 16.7.2 (fixed in 16.7.2); from 17.0, before 17.1 (fixed in 17.1)
• Apple macOS: from 14.0, before 14.1 (fixed in 14.1)
• Apple Safari: before 17.1 (fixed in 17.1)
• Debian Debian Linux: version 11.0 only; version 12.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 37 only; version 38 only; version 39 only

Published 2023-10-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.