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CVE-2023-42917

Exploitation: active CVSS 8.8 HIGH

CVSS base score: 8.8 (High) CISA · v3.1

Score assigned by CISA's Vulnrichment program; the vendor's CVE record did not include one.

Apple Multiple Products WebKit Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Vendor: Apple   Product: Multiple Products

Description

Apple iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and Safari WebKit contain a memory corruption vulnerability that leads to code execution when processing maliciously crafted web content. This vulnerability could impact HTML parsers that use WebKit, including but not limited to Apple Safari and non-Apple products which rely on WebKit for HTML processing.

Lifecycle Timeline

Each milestone comes from a different source, so gaps between them are gaps in what those sources publish, not evidence that nothing happened. EPSS history for this CVE holds 159 points from 2023-12-02, tracked daily from 2026-09-09; earlier points are weekly, which dates a spike to within a week. Peak probability 9.4% on 2026-06-20.

Published Applicability

Red Hat CSAF/VEX 9 affected · 515 fixed · 0 not affected
OSV.dev (incl. GHSA) 6 affected · 6 fixed · 0 not affected
CVE List v5 (CNA container) 3 affected · 0 fixed · 0 not affected

Check whether a specific version is affected →

What each source publishes about which product versions carry this vulnerability, kept as written rather than merged. Absence here means no source has published applicability data, not that nothing is affected.

Research & News Coverage

No mentions found in monitored research blogs or news feeds.

Detection & Exploitation

Exploit / Pen Test
none published
Network IDS/IPS
none published
Host / SIEM
none published

Coverage across public collections only: Nuclei and OpenVAS NVT (scan); Snort and Suricata ET Open (network); Sigma and YARA (host/SIEM); Metasploit, Exploit-DB and public GitHub repositories (exploit). Absence here means nothing public was found, not that detection is impossible.
GitHub PoC repositories are collected automatically by PoC-in-GitHub (CC0) and are not vetted: some are fakes and some are malware. Treat them as evidence that code was published, not as code to run.
OpenVAS coverage derives from the Greenbone Community Feed, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0; its individual Vulnerability Tests are licensed GNU GPL v2.

Distribution Status

Debian · webkit2gtk bookworm 2.42.3-1~deb12u1 trixie 2.42.3-1 forky 2.42.3-1 sid 2.42.3-1 scope: local
Debian · wpewebkit bookworm trixie 2.42.3-1 forky 2.42.3-1 sid 2.42.3-1 scope: local

Where the distribution has shipped a fix, and in which version. Green means the release has resolved it, amber that it is still open. Data from the Debian Security Tracker, used under Debian's MIT / GPLv2+ terms. Debian is upstream of several other distributions, so a fix here often precedes theirs.

CISA Assessment (Vulnrichment / SSVC)

active
no
total
8.8 HIGH
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write
2025-02-03

D3FEND Countermeasures

Defensive techniques inferred by MITRE D3FEND from the underlying weakness (CWE-787) — general hardening and detection guidance for this weakness class, not a vendor patch for this specific CVE.

KEV Catalog Status

2023-12-04
2023-12-25
Unknown

Listed By

SourceDateRecord
CISA KEV 2023-12-04 source record →
CISA Vulnrichment 2025-02-03 source record →

Weaponization Timeline — Offensive & Testing Tools

No exploit-tool sightings recorded for this CVE.

Evidence tiers are explained on the About page — a merged Metasploit module is far stronger evidence than a distro package mention.

External References