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CVE-2023-42828

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-42828 is a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Apple macOS Ventura, specifically fixed in version 13.5. An unprivileged application could exploit this flaw to gain root privileges on the system. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), this vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) but has low attack complexity (AC:L), posing a significant risk of complete compromise (C:H, I:H, A:H). Currently, there is no public exploit code available (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB: None), it is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 13.5CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:apple:macos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 13.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:macos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.20%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
10.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0020 is in the 8th percentile among its peer group of 11,621 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

applevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

support.apple.com / en-us/HT213843
Release NotesVendor Advisory