CVE-2023-40428 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting Apple iOS and iPadOS that could allow an application to access sensitive user data due to insufficient handling of caches. With a CVSS score of 5.5, it requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L) to exploit, leading to a high impact on confidentiality (C:H). Apple has addressed this issue in iOS 17 and iPadOS 17. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 17.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:apple:ipados:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 17.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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