CVE-2023-42970

high
Published 2024-04-30 · Modified 2024-04-30
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

Description

A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management. This issue is fixed in iOS 17 and iPadOS 17, macOS Sonoma 14, watchOS 10, tvOS 17, Safari 17. Processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-42970

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-42970.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202505-5

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202505-4

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202505-2

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: redhat — https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2126

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
redhat rhel9fixed
arch archfixed2.48.2-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed2.42.1-1~deb12u1
debian debianbullseyefixed2.42.1-1~deb11u1
debian debianforkyfixed2.42.0-1
debian debiansidfixed2.42.0-1
debian debiantrixiefixed2.42.0-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.