CVE-2023-42959

7.0 highEPSS 0.1%

High (7.0) in apple macos. EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A race condition was addressed with improved state handling. This issue is fixed in macOS Sonoma 14. An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.0 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 1% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-362
Published: 2024-07-29
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

apple:macos

References

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213940
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213940

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