CVE-2023-32435 (GCVE-0-2023-32435)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-06-23 00:00 – Updated: 2025-10-21 23:05- Processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited against versions of iOS released before iOS 15.7.
- CWE-787 - Out-of-bounds Write
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apple | macOS |
Affected:
unspecified , < 13.3
(custom)
|
|
| Apple | iOS and iPadOS |
Affected:
unspecified , < 15.7
(custom)
|
|
| Apple | Safari |
Affected:
unspecified , < 16.4
(custom)
|
|
| Apple | iOS and iPadOS |
Affected:
unspecified , < 16.4
(custom)
|
CISA
Known Exploited Vulnerability - GCVE BCP-07 Compliant
Exploited: Yes
Timestamps
Scope
Evidence
Type: Vendor Report
Signal: Successful Exploitation
Confidence: 80%
Source: cisa-kev
Details
| Cwes | CWE-787 |
|---|---|
| Feed | CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog |
| Product | Multiple Products |
| Due Date | 2023-07-14 |
| Date Added | 2023-06-23 |
| Vendorproject | Apple |
| Vulnerabilityname | Apple Multiple Products WebKit Memory Corruption Vulnerability |
| Knownransomwarecampaignuse | Unknown |
References
Previdian
Known Exploited Vulnerability - GCVE BCP-07 Compliant
Exploited: Yes
Timestamps
Scope
Evidence
Type: Public Report
Signal: Successful Exploitation
Confidence: 70%
Source: previdian
Details
| Feed | Previdian (previdian.com) |
|---|---|
| Title | A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in macOS Ventura 13.3, Safari 16.4, iOS 16.4 and iPadOS... |
| Cve Id | CVE-2023-32435 |
| Vendor | Apple |
| Ghsa Id | None |
| Product | macOS, iOS and iPadOS, Safari |
| Added Date | 2023-06-23T00:00:00.000Z |
| Cvss Score | 8.8 |
| Epss Score | 0.22951 |
| Previous Ids | |
| Cvss Severity | HIGH |
| Virtual Patch | False |
| Cvss Estimated | False |
| Epss Percentile | 0.97687 |
| Used In Malware | unknown |
| Vulnerability Id | CVE-2023-32435 |
| Ahead Of Cisa Kev | None |
| Not Yet In Cisa Kev | False |
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.