CVE-2023-41991

5.5

CVSS
Medium

PUBLISHED

A certificate validation issue was addressed. This issue is fixed in macOS Ventura 13.6, iOS 16.7 and iPadOS 16.7. A malicious app may be able to...

Exploited in the wild Low complexity

Vendor: Apple
Product: iOS and iPadOS, macOS
Published: Sep 21, 2023
EPSS: —

Description

A certificate validation issue was addressed. This issue is fixed in macOS Ventura 13.6, iOS 16.7 and iPadOS 16.7. A malicious app may be able to bypass signature validation. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited against versions of iOS before iOS 16.7.

macos ios cisa nessus_scanner

CVSS scores

CVSS v3.1 5.5 Medium

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

Exploitation status

Exploited in the wild

Recorded 2023-09-25 00:00:00 UTC · Source

SSVC decision points

Exploitation: active
Automatable: No
Technical impact: partial

References

Known exploited vulnerability sources

Catalogues that list this CVE as a known exploited vulnerability.

Source	Added
CISA	Sep 25, 2023

Scanner integrations

Scanner	Reference	Detected
Nessus	https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/181843	Jun 02, 2025

Potential proof of concepts

These PoCs are unverified and could contain malware. Use at your own risk.

Zenyith/CVE-2023-41991

github · Created 2023-11-28 23:59:40 UTC · 2 stars

Vulnerability detail