CVE-2023-41993
High 8.8 Exploited in the wild (KEV)
Confirmed active exploitation — CISA KEV catalog
- Name
- Apple Multiple Products WebKit Code Execution Vulnerability
- Added to catalog
- Remediation due date (US federal)
- Required action
- Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
Description
The issue was addressed with improved checks. This issue is fixed in macOS Sonoma 14. Processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited against versions of iOS before iOS 16.7.
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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8.8 (HIGH)
Score source: NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS — exploit probability
- 24% (percentile: 98) as of 2 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-754
Affected products
apple: ipados; apple: iphone os; apple: macos; fedoraproject: fedora; debian: debian linux; oracle: graalvm; oracle: jdk; oracle: jre; netapp: active iq unified manager; netapp: cloud insights acquisition unit; netapp: cloud insights storage workload security agent; netapp: oncommand insight; netapp: oncommand workflow automation; webkitgtk: webkitgtk\+
References
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213940 Vendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213940 Vendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213926 Vendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213930 Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-33 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240426-0004/ Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-33 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240426-0004/ Third Party Advisory
- https://webkitgtk.org/security/WSA-2023-0009.html Third Party Advisory
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2023… US Government Resource