apple ipados CVE-2023-42824 vulnerability in Apple Products
Published on October 4, 2023

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The issue was addressed with improved checks. This issue is fixed in iOS 16.7.1 and iPadOS 16.7.1. A local attacker may be able to elevate their privileges. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited against versions of iOS before iOS 16.6.

Vendor Advisory NVD

Known Exploited Vulnerability

This Apple iOS and iPadOS Kernel Privilege Escalation Vulnerability is part of CISA's list of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities. Apple iOS and iPadOS contain an unspecified vulnerability that allows for local privilege escalation.

The following remediation steps are recommended / required by October 26, 2023: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2023-42824 is exploitable with local system access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. It has an exploitability score of 1.8 out of four. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.


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