CVE-2023-42942: Apple Ipad OS

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

This issue was addressed with improved handling of symlinks. This issue is fixed in watchOS 10.1, macOS Sonoma 14.1, tvOS 17.1, iOS 16.7.2 and iPadOS 16.7.2, iOS 17.1 and iPadOS 17.1, macOS Ventura 13.6.1. A malicious app may be able to gain root privileges.

Affected products

• Apple Ipad OS: before 16.7.2 (fixed in 16.7.2)
• Apple iPadOS: version 17.0 only
• Apple iPhone OS: before 16.7.2 (fixed in 16.7.2); version 17.0 only
• Apple macOS: from 13.0, before 13.6.1 (fixed in 13.6.1); version 14.0 only
• Apple tvOS: up to and including 17.1
• Apple watchOS: before 10.1 (fixed in 10.1)

Published 2024-02-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.