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CVE-2023-42877

17
FAUCET Score

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.

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:N/I:H/A:N

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.20%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
9.7%
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 12th 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