CVE-2023-23520
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-02-27 00:00
Modified
2024-08-02 10:35
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
product-security@apple.comhttps://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213599
product-security@apple.comhttps://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213601
product-security@apple.comhttps://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213605Vendor Advisory
product-security@apple.comhttps://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213606Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
AppleiOS and iPadOS
AppletvOS
ApplemacOS
ApplewatchOS
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