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CVE-2023-41993

82
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-41993 is a critical WebKit vulnerability affecting Apple products, Debian, Fedora, NetApp, and Oracle, allowing arbitrary code execution through processing malicious web content. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (HIGH), it requires user interaction (UI:R) but can be exploited remotely (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L), leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. This zero-day vulnerability is actively exploited in the wild, particularly against iOS versions prior to 16.7, and has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, despite a lack of public exploit intelligence tools.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 17.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:ipados:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 17.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 14.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:macos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
37CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:37:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
38CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:38:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
29.18%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
98.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
Added to KEV · Sep 25, 2023
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.2918 is in the 98th percentile among its peer group of 14,855 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle SupportFixed in: webkitgtk4-0:2.48.3-2.el7_9
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: webkit2gtk3-0:2.38.5-1.el8_8.5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: webkit2gtk3-0:2.38.5-1.el9_2.3
View patch
applevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2023-41993Moderate

webkitgtk: processing malicious web content may lead to arbitrary code execution

Sep 21, 2023

References

cisa.gov / known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
US Government Resource
support.apple.com / kb/HT213926
Vendor Advisory
support.apple.com / kb/HT213930
Vendor Advisory
webkitgtk.org / security/WSA-2023-0009.html
Third Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202401-33
Third Party Advisory
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20240426-0004
Third Party Advisory
support.apple.com / en-us/HT213940
Vendor Advisory