CVE-2023-41986: Apple iPadOS

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The issue was addressed with improved checks. This issue is fixed in iOS 17 and iPadOS 17, macOS Sonoma 14. An app may be able to modify protected parts of the file system.

Affected products

• Apple iPadOS: before 17.0 (fixed in 17.0)
• Apple iPhone OS: before 17.0 (fixed in 17.0)
• Apple macOS: before 14.0 (fixed in 14.0)

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