PT-2023-1555 · Apple · Ipados+5

Cees Elzinga · Published 2023-01-23 · Updated 2025-03-11 · CVE-2023-23520

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.9

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions watchOS versions prior to 9.3 tvOS versions prior to 16.3 macOS Ventura versions prior to 13.2 iOS versions prior to 16.3 iPadOS versions prior to 16.3

Description A race condition issue was addressed with additional validation, which may allow a user to read arbitrary files as root. This issue is related to synchronization errors when using a shared resource, also known as a race condition.

Recommendations For watchOS versions prior to 9.3, update to watchOS 9.3 to resolve the issue. For tvOS versions prior to 16.3, update to tvOS 16.3 to resolve the issue. For macOS Ventura versions prior to 13.2, update to macOS Ventura 13.2 to resolve the issue. For iOS versions prior to 16.3, update to iOS 16.3 to resolve the issue. For iPadOS versions prior to 16.3, update to iPadOS 16.3 to resolve the issue.

Fix

Race Condition

Time Of Check To Time Of Use

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-362

CWE-367

Related Identifiers

BDU:2023-01016

CVE-2023-23520

Affected Products

Apple Macos

Ios

Ipados

Macos Ventura

Tvos

Watchos

References · 12

• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2023-01016 · Security Note
• https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213605 · Vendor Advisory
• https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213606 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-23520 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-23520 · Vendor Advisory
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/59069 · Telegram Post
• https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213599 · Note
• https://t.me/thehackernews/3083 · Telegram Post
• https://vuldb.com/?id.221926 · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/114322 · Telegram Post
• https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213601 · Note
• https://t.me/true_secator/4102 · Telegram Post