apple macos CVE-2023-41060 vulnerability in Apple Products
Published on January 10, 2024

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A type confusion issue was addressed with improved checks. This issue is fixed in macOS Sonoma 14, iOS 17 and iPadOS 17. A remote user may be able to cause kernel code execution.

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Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2023-41060 is exploitable with network access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. It has an exploitability score of 2.8 out of four. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.

What is an Object Type Confusion Vulnerability?

The program allocates or initializes a resource such as a pointer, object, or variable using one type, but it later accesses that resource using a type that is incompatible with the original type.

CVE-2023-41060 has been classified to as an Object Type Confusion vulnerability or weakness.


Products Associated with CVE-2023-41060

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