About the security content of macOS Ventura 13.5

This document describes the security content of macOS Ventura 13.5.

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macOS Ventura 13.5

Accounts

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: An app may be able to read sensitive location information

Description: A privacy issue was addressed with improved private data redaction for log entries.

CVE-2023-40439: Kirin (@Pwnrin)

AMD

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

Description: A race condition was addressed with improved state handling.

CVE-2023-38616: ABC Research s.r.o.

Apple Neural Engine

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2023-34425: pattern-f (@pattern_F_) of Ant Security Light-Year Lab

Apple Neural Engine

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2023-38580: Mohamed GHANNAM (@_simo36)

AppleMobileFileIntegrity

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: An app may be able to determine a user’s current location

Description: A downgrade issue affecting Intel-based Mac computers was addressed with additional code-signing restrictions.

CVE-2023-36862: Mickey Jin (@patch1t)

AppSandbox

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: A sandboxed process may be able to circumvent sandbox restrictions

Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved restrictions.

CVE-2023-32364: Gergely Kalman (@gergely_kalman)

Assets

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: An app may be able to modify protected parts of the file system

Description: This issue was addressed with improved data protection.

CVE-2023-35983: Mickey Jin (@patch1t)

CFNetwork

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: An app may be able to read sensitive location information

Description: A privacy issue was addressed with improved private data redaction for log entries.

CVE-2023-40392: Wojciech Regula of SecuRing (wojciechregula.blog)

crontabs

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: An app may be able to gain root privileges

Description: This issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code.

CVE-2023-42828: Erhad Husovic

CUPS

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: A user in a privileged network position may be able to leak sensitive information

Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2023-34241: Sei K.

curl

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: Multiple issues in curl

Description: Multiple issues were addressed by updating curl.

CVE-2023-28319

CVE-2023-28320

CVE-2023-28321

CVE-2023-28322

Find My

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: An app may be able to read sensitive location information

Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved restrictions.

CVE-2023-32416: Wojciech Regula of SecuRing (wojciechregula.blog)

Find My

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: An app may be able to read sensitive location information

Description: A privacy issue was addressed with improved private data redaction for log entries.

CVE-2023-40437: Kirin (@Pwnrin), and Wojciech Regula of SecuRing (wojciechregula.blog)

Grapher

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: Processing a file may lead to unexpected app termination or arbitrary code execution

Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2023-32418: Bool of YunShangHuaAn(云上华安)

CVE-2023-36854: Bool of YunShangHuaAn(云上华安)

ImageIO

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to a denial of service

Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2022-3970: found by OSS-Fuzz

Kernel

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: An app may be able to disclose kernel memory

Description: A validation issue was addressed with improved input sanitization.

CVE-2023-28200: Arsenii Kostromin (0x3c3e)

Kernel

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: A remote user may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory

Description: A buffer overflow issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2023-38590: Zweig of Kunlun Lab

Kernel

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

Description: A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management.

CVE-2023-38598: Mohamed GHANNAM (@_simo36)

Kernel

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

Description: An integer overflow was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2023-36495: 香农的三蹦子 of Pangu Lab

Kernel

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2023-37285: Arsenii Kostromin (0x3c3e)

Kernel

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2023-38604: an anonymous researcher

Kernel

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2023-32734: Pan ZhenPeng (@Peterpan0927) of STAR Labs SG Pte. Ltd.

CVE-2023-32441: Peter Nguyễn Vũ Hoàng (@peternguyen14) of STAR Labs SG Pte. Ltd.

CVE-2023-38261: an anonymous researcher

CVE-2023-38424: Certik Skyfall Team

CVE-2023-38425: Certik Skyfall Team

Kernel

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

Description: A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management.

CVE-2023-32381: an anonymous researcher

CVE-2023-32433: Zweig of Kunlun Lab

CVE-2023-35993: Kaitao Xie and Xiaolong Bai of Alibaba Group

Kernel

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: A user may be able to elevate privileges

Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2023-38410: an anonymous researcher

Kernel

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: An app may be able to modify sensitive kernel state. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited against versions of iOS released before iOS 15.7.1.

Description: This issue was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2023-38606: Valentin Pashkov, Mikhail Vinogradov, Georgy Kucherin (@kucher1n), Leonid Bezvershenko (@bzvr_), and Boris Larin (@oct0xor) of Kaspersky

Kernel

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: A remote user may be able to cause a denial-of-service

Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2023-38603: Zweig of Kunlun Lab

libxpc

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: An app may be able to gain root privileges

Description: A path handling issue was addressed with improved validation.

CVE-2023-38565: Zhipeng Huo (@R3dF09) of Tencent Security Xuanwu Lab (xlab.tencent.com)

libxpc

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: An app may be able to cause a denial-of-service

Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2023-38593: Noah Roskin-Frazee

Mail

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: A S/MIME encrypted email may be inadvertently sent unencrypted

Description: This issue was addressed with improved state management of S/MIME encrypted emails.

CVE-2023-40440: Taavi Eomäe from Zone Media OÜ

Model I/O

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: Processing a 3D model may result in disclosure of process memory

Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2023-38258: Mickey Jin (@patch1t)

CVE-2023-38421: Mickey Jin (@patch1t), and Michael DePlante (@izobashi) of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative

Model I/O

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: Processing an image may result in disclosure of process memory

Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2023-1916

Music

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: An app may be able to bypass Privacy preferences

Description: This issue was addressed with improved validation of symlinks.

CVE-2023-38571: Gergely Kalman (@gergely_kalman)

ncurses

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: An app may cause unexpected app termination or arbitrary code execution

Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved validation.

CVE-2023-29491: Jonathan Bar Or of Microsoft, Emanuele Cozzi of Microsoft, and Michael Pearse of Microsoft

Net-SNMP

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: An app may be able to modify protected parts of the file system

Description: This issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code.

CVE-2023-38601: Csaba Fitzl (@theevilbit) of Offensive Security

NSSpellChecker

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: A sandboxed process may be able to circumvent sandbox restrictions

Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved validation.

CVE-2023-32444: Mickey Jin (@patch1t)

OpenLDAP

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: A remote user may be able to cause a denial-of-service

Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2023-2953: Sandipan Roy

OpenSSH

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: An app may be able to access SSH passphrases

Description: The issue was addressed with additional restrictions on the observability of app states.

CVE-2023-42829: James Duffy (mangoSecure)

PackageKit

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: An app may be able to bypass certain Privacy preferences

Description: An injection issue was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2023-38609: Michael Cowell

PackageKit

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: An app may be able to access user-sensitive data

Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved restrictions.

CVE-2023-38259: Mickey Jin (@patch1t)

PackageKit

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: An app may be able to modify protected parts of the file system

Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2023-38564: Mickey Jin (@patch1t)

PackageKit

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: An app may be able to modify protected parts of the file system

Description: A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions.

CVE-2023-38602: Arsenii Kostromin (0x3c3e)

Security

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: An app may be able to fingerprint the user

Description: This issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code.

CVE-2023-42831: James Duffy (mangoSecure)

Shortcuts

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: A shortcut may be able to modify sensitive Shortcuts app settings

Description: An access issue was addressed with improved access restrictions.

CVE-2023-32442: an anonymous researcher

sips

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: Processing a file may lead to a denial-of-service or potentially disclose memory contents

Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2023-32443: David Hoyt of Hoyt LLC

Software Update

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: An app may be able to gain root privileges

Description: A race condition was addressed with improved state handling.

CVE-2023-42832: Arsenii Kostromin (0x3c3e)

SystemMigration

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: An app may be able to bypass Privacy preferences

Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2023-32429: Wenchao Li and Xiaolong Bai of Hangzhou Orange Shield Information Technology Co., Ltd.

tcpdump

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to execute arbitrary code

Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2023-1801

Time Zone

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: A user may be able to read information belonging to another user

Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2023-32654: Matthew Loewen

Vim

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: Multiple issues in Vim

Description: Multiple issues were addressed by updating Vim.

CVE-2023-2426

CVE-2023-2609

CVE-2023-2610

Voice Memos

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: An app may be able to access user-sensitive data

Description: The issue was addressed with additional permissions checks.

CVE-2023-38608: Yiğit Can YILMAZ (@yilmazcanyigit), Noah Roskin-Frazee and Prof. J. (ZeroClicks.ai Lab), Kirin (@Pwnrin), and Yishu Wang

Weather

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: An app may be able to determine a user’s current location

Description: This issue was addressed with improved redaction of sensitive information.

CVE-2023-38605: Adam M.

WebKit

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause arbitrary javascript code execution

Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2023-40397: Johan Carlsson (joaxcar)

WebKit

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: A website may be able to bypass Same Origin Policy

Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2023-38572: Narendra Bhati (twitter.com/imnarendrabhati) of Suma Soft Pvt. Ltd, Pune - India

WebKit

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: A website may be able to track sensitive user information

Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.

WebKit Bugzilla: 257822

CVE-2023-38599: Hritvik Taneja, Jason Kim, Jie Jeff Xu, Stephan van Schaik, Daniel Genkin, and Yuval Yarom

WebKit

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: Processing a document may lead to a cross site scripting attack

Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.

WebKit Bugzilla: 257299

CVE-2023-32445: Johan Carlsson (joaxcar)

WebKit

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: Processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved restrictions.

WebKit Bugzilla: 257331

CVE-2023-38592: Narendra Bhati (twitter.com/imnarendrabhati) of Suma Soft Pvt. Ltd, Pune - India, Valentino Dalla Valle, Pedro Bernardo, Marco Squarcina, and Lorenzo Veronese of TU Wien

WebKit

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: Processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2023-38594: Yuhao Hu

CVE-2023-38595: an anonymous researcher, Jiming Wang, Jikai Ren

CVE-2023-38600: Anonymous working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative

WebKit

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: Processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2023-38611: Francisco Alonso (@revskills)

WebKit

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: Processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited.

Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2023-37450: an anonymous researcher

WebKit

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: Processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2023-42866: Francisco Alonso (@revskills) and Junsung Lee

WebKit Process Model

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: Processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2023-38597: 이준성(Junsung Lee) of Cross Republic

WebKit Web Inspector

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: Processing web content may disclose sensitive information

Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2023-38133: YeongHyeon Choi (@hyeon101010)

Additional recognition

WebKit

We would like to acknowledge Narendra Bhati (twitter.com/imnarendrabhati) of Suma Soft Pvt. Ltd, Pune - India for their assistance.

WebKit

We would like to acknowledge 이준성(Junsung Lee) of Cross Republic for their assistance.

WebRTC

We would like to acknowledge an anonymous researcher for their assistance.