CVE-2023-42896: Apple iPadOS

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

An issue was addressed with improved handling of temporary files. 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, macOS Sonoma 14.2. An app may be able to modify protected parts of the file system.

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)

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