CVE-2023-40455 | A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictio… | CVSS 10.0 CRITICAL

Description

A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions. This issue is fixed in macOS Sonoma 14. A sandboxed process may be able to circumvent sandbox restrictions.

Metadata

CVE ID: CVE-2023-40455
State: PUBLISHED
Assigner: apple
Reserved: 2023-08-14 20:56 UTC
Published: 2023-09-26 20:15 UTC
Last updated: 2025-11-04 19:20 UTC
Vendor / Product: Apple / macOS
Sources: cve.org · NVD

Severity & Metrics

10.0 CRITICAL CVSS 3.1

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC — CISA Coordinator

Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Tech. Impact: total

Affected products (1)

Vendor	Product	Platform	Versions
Apple	macOS	—	unspecified < 14

Weakness (CWE)

CWE	Source	Description
—	cna	A sandboxed process may be able to circumvent sandbox restrictions
—	adp	CWE-noinfo Not enough information

CVSS scores (1)

Score	Severity	Version	Source	Vector
10.0	CRITICAL	3.1	adp	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

References (2)