CVE-2023-42846: Apple iPadOS

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

This issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code. This issue is fixed in watchOS 10.1, iOS 16.7.2 and iPadOS 16.7.2, tvOS 17.1, iOS 17.1 and iPadOS 17.1. A device may be passively tracked by its Wi-Fi MAC address.

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 tvOS: before 17.1 (fixed in 17.1)
• Apple watchOS: before 10.1 (fixed in 10.1)

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