CVE-2023-42877 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting Apple macOS Sonoma, Monterey, and Ventura, where a malicious application could modify protected areas of the file system. With a CVSS score of 5.5, it requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L) to achieve high integrity impact (I:H), but has no confidentiality or availability impact. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability. Apple has addressed this issue with improved checks in macOS Sonoma 14.1, macOS Monterey 12.7.1, and macOS Ventura 13.6.1.
| Vendor | Product | Version(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 version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
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