CVE-2023-42961: Apple iPadOS

Medium severity, CVSS 6.3. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A path handling issue was addressed with improved validation. This issue is fixed in iOS 17 and iPadOS 17, iOS 16.7 and iPadOS 16.7, macOS Sonoma 14, macOS Ventura 13.6, macOS Monterey 12.7. A sandboxed process may be able to circumvent sandbox restrictions.

Affected products

• Apple iPadOS: before 16.7 (fixed in 16.7)
• Apple iPhone OS: before 16.7 (fixed in 16.7)
• Apple macOS: from 12.0, before 12.7 (fixed in 12.7); from 13.0, before 13.6 (fixed in 13.6)

Published 2025-04-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.