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CVE-2023-42840

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-42840 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting Apple macOS (Sonoma 14.1, Monterey 12.7.1, Ventura 13.6.1 and earlier versions) that could allow an application to access user-sensitive data due to insufficient checks. The attack requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L), but is of low complexity (AC:L), leading to a high confidentiality impact (C:H). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 12.7CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:apple:macos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 13.6CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:apple:macos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 14.1CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:apple:macos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 12.0, < 12.7.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:macos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 13.0, < 13.6.1CPE 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
0.24%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
15.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0024 is in the 19th 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 / kb/HT213983
support.apple.com / kb/HT213984
support.apple.com / kb/HT213985
support.apple.com / en-us/HT213983
Vendor Advisory
support.apple.com / en-us/HT213984
Vendor Advisory
support.apple.com / en-us/HT213985
Vendor Advisory