PT-2023-27455 · Apple · Ipados+2

Ron Masas · Published 2023-09-26 · Updated 2024-10-22 · CVE-2023-40441

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions iOS versions prior to 17 iPadOS versions prior to 17 macOS versions prior to Sonoma 14

Description A resource exhaustion issue was addressed with improved input validation. Processing web content may lead to a denial-of-service. The issue is related to how GPUs handle shaders and can cause devices to freeze or crash, forcing reboots.

Recommendations For iOS versions prior to 17, update to iOS 17 to resolve the issue. For iPadOS versions prior to 17, update to iPadOS 17 to resolve the issue. For macOS versions prior to Sonoma 14, update to macOS Sonoma 14 to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the processing of web content to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

DoS

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

CVE-2023-40441

Affected Products

Apple Macos

Ios

Ipados

References · 12

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-40441 · Vendor Advisory
• https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213938 · Vendor Advisory
• https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213940 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-40441 · Security Note
• https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213940 · Note
• https://twitter.com/RonMasas/status/1848805928470008216 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/58744 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/71121 · Telegram Post
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Oct/8 · Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1706770227416146408 · Twitter Post
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Oct/3 · Note
• https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213938 · Note