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CVE-2023-42883

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-42883 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Apple products, including Safari, macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and tvOS. Processing a specially crafted image can lead to a system crash. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium), indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, requiring user interaction, and resulting in high availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 17.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apple:safari:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 16.7.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:ipados:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 17.0, < 17.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:ipados:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 16.7.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 17.0, < 17.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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:N/A:H

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.72%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
50.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0072 is in the 57th 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle SupportFixed in: webkitgtk4-0:2.48.3-2.el7_9
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: webkit2gtk3-0:2.42.5-1.el8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: webkit2gtk3-0:2.42.5-1.el9
View patch
applevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2023-42883Moderate

webkitgtk: processing a malicious image may lead to a denial of service

Dec 12, 2023

References

seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2023/Dec/12
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2023/Dec/13
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2023/Dec/6
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2023/Dec/7
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2023/Dec/8
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2023/Dec/9
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
support.apple.com / en-us/HT214034
Release NotesVendor Advisory
support.apple.com / en-us/HT214035
Release NotesVendor Advisory
support.apple.com / en-us/HT214036
Release NotesVendor Advisory
support.apple.com / en-us/HT214039
Release NotesVendor Advisory
support.apple.com / en-us/HT214040
Release NotesVendor Advisory
support.apple.com / en-us/HT214041
Release NotesVendor Advisory
support.apple.com / kb/HT214034
support.apple.com / kb/HT214039
debian.org / security/2023/dsa-5580
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2023/12/18/1
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory