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Exploited in the wild Confirmed confidence In CISA KEV

CVE-2023-42916

Safari

Apple / Safari · affected before 17.1.2

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Severity
CVSS 6.5 · Medium
Confidence
Confirmed
Exploit status
Exploited in the wild
EPSS
17.8%
First observed
—
Last observed
—

Decision summary

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What it is

CVE-2023-42916 is an unauthenticated vulnerability affecting Apple Safari and 2 other products. An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation. This issue is fixed in iOS 17.1.2 and iPadOS 17.1.2,...

Is it exploited?

Yes. KEV Intelligence tracks this CVE as a known exploited vulnerability. Confidence is confirmed.

Who is affected?

Apple / Safari affected before 17.1.2.

What should we do?

Prioritize remediation. Validate affected assets and apply vendor fixes on an accelerated timeline.

Overview

An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation

An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation. This issue is fixed in iOS 17.1.2 and iPadOS 17.1.2, macOS Sonoma 14.1.2, Safari 17.1.2.

Processing web content may disclose sensitive information. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited against versions of iOS before iOS 16.7.1.

Vendor Product Affected Status
apple iphone_os Before 17.1.2 Affected
apple ipados Before 17.1.2 Affected
apple macos Before 14.1.2 Affected
apple safari Before 17.1.2 Affected
Apple Safari Before 17.1 Affected
Apple macOS Before 14.1 Affected
Apple iOS and iPadOS Before 17.1 Affected
Published
30 Nov 2023
Exploitation Reported
04 Dec 2023
Attack vector
Remote
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required

Tags

cisa macos ios nessus_scanner

CVE References

Exploitation evidence

Why KEV Intelligence marks this CVE as exploited

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Exploited in the wild

CISA

Recorded 04 Dec 2023

Independent exploitation attestation added to the KEV Intelligence record.

Known exploited vulnerability sources

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Source Added
CISA First 2023-12-04 00:00 UTC

Detection

Operational artifacts and observed signals

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Observed signals

Request targets
0
User-Agents
0

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Virtual patch status

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Scanner Artifacts

Scanner and exploit-framework references linked to this CVE.

Scanner Reference Detected
Nessus https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/226097 02 Jun 2025

Risk and context

Severity, weaknesses, and research context

CVSS v3.1

6.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS

17.8%

Weaknesses

Out-of-bounds Read CWE-125

Timeline

From disclosure to observed exploitation

  1. Nessus plugin available

    Scanner coverage available

  2. Added to CISA KEV

    Listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

  3. CVE published

    Vulnerability disclosed publicly

  4. CVE ID reserved

    Identifier reserved by the CNA

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{
  "cve_id": "CVE-2023-42916",
  "confidence": "Confirmed",
  "cvss_score": 6.5,
  "cvss_estimated": false,
  "epss_score": 0.17823,
  "exploit_status": {
    "exploited_in_the_wild": true,
    "active_exploitation_observed": false
  },
  "sensor_telemetry": { "attempts": 0, "sensors": 0 }
}

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