Critical severity · published Sep 27, 2023
CVE-2023-40455
A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions
10.0
CVSS
1.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions. This issue is fixed in macOS Sonoma 14. A sandboxed process may be able to circumvent sandbox restrictions.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.3% · higher than 71% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
MA
macOS · Apple
before 14.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-40455
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-40455
Mailing List
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Oct/3
Release Notes
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213940
support.apple.com
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213940
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