Apple Addresses Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in iOS and Other Products
CVE-2023-41064

7.8HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor
Apple
Status
Mac OS
iOS And iPad OS
Vendor
CVE Published:
7 September 2023

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👾 Exploit Exists🟡 Public PoC🦅 CISA Reported📰 News Worthy

Summary

A buffer overflow vulnerability in Apple's iOS and macOS products was recently identified, which can lead to arbitrary code execution when processing specially crafted images. This issue has been addressed with improved memory handling in several updates across various Apple product versions. Users are strongly encouraged to update to the latest versions to mitigate potential threats, as there have been reports of active exploitation attempts. Apple has provided updates to enhance security and protect against this vulnerability.

CISA Reported

CISA provides regional cyber and physical services to support security and resilience across the United States. CISA monitor the most dangerious vulnerabilities and have identifed as being exploited but is not known by the CISA to be used in ransomware campaigns. This is subject to change at pace

The CISA's recommendation is: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Affected Version(s)

iOS and iPadOS < 16.6

iOS and iPadOS < 15.7

macOS < 12.6

Exploit Proof of Concept (PoC)

PoC code is written by security researchers to demonstrate the vulnerability can be exploited. PoC code is also a key component for weaponization which could lead to ransomware.

CVE-2023-41064
Created by MrR0b0t19

vulnerabilidad-LibWebP-CVE-2023-41064
Created by MrR0b0t19

News Articles

favicon imageUpwind Security

WebP Zero-Day: Everything You Need to Know About Libwebp  - Upwind

This month, the Citizen Lab at The University of Toronto’s Munk School and Apple Security Engineering and Architecture (SEA) opened two critical vulnerabilities related to WebP images and Google’s webmproject/libwebp library.  So, what is Libwebp?  Libwebp is a commonly used library used to render W...

3 months ago

References

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213914
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213915
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213905

CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.8
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • 📰

    First article discovered by Upwind Security

  • 🟡

    Public PoC available

  • 👾

    Exploit known to exist

  • 🦅

    CISA Reported

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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