CVE-2023-42872: Apple iPadOS

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

The issue was addressed with additional permissions checks. This issue is fixed in macOS Sonoma 14, iOS 17 and iPadOS 17. An app may be able to access sensitive user data.

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)
• Apple Safari: before 17.0 (fixed in 17.0)

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