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CVE-2023-42829

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-42829 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting Apple macOS (Big Sur, Monterey, and Ventura) that could allow an application to access SSH passphrases due to insufficient restrictions on app state observability. With a CVSS score of 5.5, this local vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) and could lead to high confidentiality impact (C:H) if exploited. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage. Apple has addressed this issue in macOS Big Sur 11.7.9, macOS Monterey 12.6.8, and macOS Ventura 13.5.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 11.7CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:apple:macos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 12.6CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:apple:macos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 13.5CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:apple:macos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 11.0, < 11.7.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:macos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 12.0.0, < 12.6.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:macos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.40%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
32.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0040 is in the 39th percentile among its peer group of 5,765 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 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
support.apple.com / en-us/HT213844
Release NotesVendor Advisory
support.apple.com / en-us/HT213845
Release NotesVendor Advisory