CVE-2023-32435 on CISA KEV

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 16.4, iOS 15.7.7 and iPadOS 15.7.7. Processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution. Apple is aware of a report that thi

01What CISA says about this vulnerability

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 16.4, iOS 15.7.7 and iPadOS 15.7.7. 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.

02Required action — verbatim from CISA

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

03Notes & references

• support.apple.com — https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213670
• support.apple.com — https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213811
• support.apple.com — https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213671
• support.apple.com — https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213676

04SARA's analyst layer — why this matters

This vulnerability is currently on the CISA KEV list, which CISA only adds CVEs to when there is reliable evidence of active exploitation in the wild. For federal civilian agencies, BOD 22-01 requires remediation by the due date above. For everyone else, KEV is the strongest "patch immediately" signal you can get from public threat intel.

05Affected products (summary)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Apple	macOS	unspecified
Apple	iOS and iPadOS	unspecified
Apple	Safari	unspecified
Apple	iOS and iPadOS	unspecified

06Detection

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