CVE-2023-42956: Apple iPadOS

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in Safari 17.2, iOS 17.2 and iPadOS 17.2, macOS Sonoma 14.2. Processing web content may lead to a denial-of-service.

Affected products

• Apple iPadOS: before 17.2 (fixed in 17.2)
• Apple iPhone OS: before 17.2 (fixed in 17.2)
• Apple macOS: from 14.0, before 14.2 (fixed in 14.2)
• Apple Safari: before 17.2 (fixed in 17.2)

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