CVE-2023-42893: Apple iPadOS

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

A permissions issue was addressed by removing vulnerable code and adding additional checks. This issue is fixed in macOS Monterey 12.7.2, macOS Ventura 13.6.3, iOS 17.2 and iPadOS 17.2, iOS 16.7.3 and iPadOS 16.7.3, tvOS 17.2, watchOS 10.2, macOS Sonoma 14.2. An app may be able to access protected user data.

Affected products

• Apple iPadOS: before 16.7.3 (fixed in 16.7.3); from 17.0, before 17.2 (fixed in 17.2)
• Apple iPhone OS: before 16.7.3 (fixed in 16.7.3); from 17.0, before 17.2 (fixed in 17.2)
• Apple macOS: from 12.0, before 12.7.2 (fixed in 12.7.2); from 13.0, before 13.6.3 (fixed in 13.6.3); from 14.0, before 14.2 (fixed in 14.2)
• Apple tvOS: before 17.2 (fixed in 17.2)
• Apple watchOS: before 10.2 (fixed in 10.2)

Published 2024-03-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.