VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2023-23520
A race condition was addressed with additional validation.
MEDIUM 5.9EPSS 0.81%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.81%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
A race condition was addressed with additional validation. This issue is fixed in watchOS 9.3, tvOS 16.3, macOS Ventura 13.2, iOS 16.3 and iPadOS 16.3. A user may be able to read arbitrary files as root.
- CVSS 3.1
- 5.9 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.81% probability · 57th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-367
- Affected
- apple/ipados · apple/iphone os · apple/macos
- Source
- product-security@apple.com
EPSS 0.8% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213599
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213601
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213605Vendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213606Vendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213599
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213601
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213605Vendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213606Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.