About the security content of macOS Ventura 13.2

This document describes the security content of macOS Ventura 13.2.

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macOS Ventura 13.2

AppleMobileFileIntegrity

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: An app may be able to bypass Privacy preferences

Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks to prevent unauthorized actions.

CVE-2023-32438: Csaba Fitzl (@theevilbit) of Offensive Security and Mickey Jin (@patch1t)

AppleMobileFileIntegrity

Available for: macOS Ventura

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

Description: This issue was addressed by enabling hardened runtime.

CVE-2023-23499: Wojciech Reguła (@_r3ggi) of SecuRing (wojciechregula.blog)

Crash Reporter

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: A user may be able to read arbitrary files as root

Description: A race condition was addressed with additional validation.

CVE-2023-23520: Cees Elzinga

curl

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: Multiple issues in curl

Description: Multiple issues were addressed by updating to curl version 7.86.0.

CVE-2022-42915

CVE-2022-42916

CVE-2022-32221

CVE-2022-35260

dcerpc

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: Mounting a maliciously crafted Samba network share may lead to arbitrary code execution

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

CVE-2023-23539: Aleksandar Nikolic and Dimitrios Tatsis of Cisco Talos

CVE-2023-23513: Dimitrios Tatsis and Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos

DiskArbitration

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: An encrypted volume may be unmounted and remounted by a different user without prompting for the password

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

CVE-2023-23493: Oliver Norpoth (@norpoth) of KLIXX GmbH (klixx.com)

FontParser

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: Processing a font file 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 15.7.1.

Description: The issue was addressed with improved handling of caches.

CVE-2023-41990: Apple

Foundation

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: An app may be able to execute arbitrary code out of its sandbox or with certain elevated privileges

Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2023-23530: Austin Emmitt (@alkalinesec), Senior Security Researcher at Trellix Advanced Research Center

Foundation

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: An app may be able to execute arbitrary code out of its sandbox or with certain elevated privileges

Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2023-23531: Austin Emmitt (@alkalinesec), Senior Security Researcher at Trellix Advanced Research Center

ImageIO

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: Processing an image may lead to a denial-of-service

Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2023-23519: Meysam Firouzi @R00tkitSMM of Mbition Mercedes-Benz Innovation Lab, Yiğit Can YILMAZ (@yilmazcanyigit), and jzhu working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative

Intel Graphics Driver

Available for: macOS Ventura

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

Description: The issue was addressed with improved bounds checks.

CVE-2023-23507: 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-2023-23516: Jordy Zomer (@pwningsystems)

Kernel

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: An app may be able to leak sensitive kernel state

Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2023-23500: Pan ZhenPeng (@Peterpan0927) of STAR Labs SG Pte. Ltd. (@starlabs_sg)

Kernel

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: An app may be able to determine kernel memory layout

Description: An information disclosure issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code.

CVE-2023-23502: Pan ZhenPeng (@Peterpan0927) of STAR Labs SG Pte. Ltd. (@starlabs_sg)

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-2023-23504: Adam Doupé of ASU SEFCOM

libxpc

Available for: macOS Ventura

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

Description: A permissions issue was addressed with improved validation.

CVE-2023-23506: Guilherme Rambo of Best Buddy Apps (rambo.codes)

Mail Drafts

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: The quoted original message may be selected from the wrong email when forwarding an email from an Exchange account

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

CVE-2023-23498: Jose Lizandro Luevano

Maps

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: An app may be able to bypass Privacy preferences

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

CVE-2023-23503: an anonymous researcher

Messages

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: A user may send a text from a secondary eSIM despite configuring a contact to use a primary eSIM

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

CVE-2023-28208: freshman

PackageKit

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: An app may be able to gain root privileges

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

CVE-2023-23497: Mickey Jin (@patch1t)

Safari

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: An app may be able to access a user’s Safari history

Description: A permissions issue was addressed with improved validation.

CVE-2023-23510: Guilherme Rambo of Best Buddy Apps (rambo.codes)

Safari

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: Visiting a website may lead to an app denial-of-service

Description: The issue was addressed with improved handling of caches.

CVE-2023-23512: Adriatik Raci

Screen Time

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: An app may be able to access information about a user’s contacts

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

CVE-2023-23505: Wojciech Reguła of SecuRing (wojciechregula.blog) and Csaba Fitzl (@theevilbit) of Offensive Security

Vim

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: Multiple issues in Vim

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

CVE-2022-3705

Weather

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: An app may be able to bypass Privacy preferences

Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2023-23511: Wojciech Regula of SecuRing (wojciechregula.blog), 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-2023-32393: Francisco Alonso (@revskills)

WebKit

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2023-23496: ChengGang Wu, Yan Kang, YuHao Hu, Yue Sun, Jiming Wang, JiKai Ren and Hang Shu of Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

WebKit

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2023-23518: YeongHyeon Choi (@hyeon101010), Hyeon Park (@tree_segment), SeOk JEON (@_seokjeon), YoungSung Ahn (@_ZeroSung), JunSeo Bae (@snakebjs0107), Dohyun Lee (@l33d0hyun) of Team ApplePIE

CVE-2023-23517: YeongHyeon Choi (@hyeon101010), Hyeon Park (@tree_segment), SeOk JEON (@_seokjeon), YoungSung Ahn (@_ZeroSung), JunSeo Bae (@snakebjs0107), Dohyun Lee (@l33d0hyun) of Team ApplePIE

Wi-Fi

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: An app may be able to disclose kernel memory.

Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling

CVE-2023-23501: Pan ZhenPeng (@Peterpan0927) of STAR Labs SG Pte. Ltd. (@starlabs_sg)

Windows Installer

Available for: macOS Ventura

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

Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2023-23508: Mickey Jin (@patch1t)

WebKit

Available for: macOS Ventura

Impact: An HTML document may be able to render iframes with sensitive user information

Description: This issue was addressed with improved iframe sandbox enforcement.

CVE-2022-0108: Luan Herrera (@lbherrera_)

Additional recognition

AppleMobileFileIntegrity

We would like to acknowledge Csaba Fitzl (@theevilbit) of Offensive Security for their assistance.

Bluetooth

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

Core Data

We would like to acknowledge Austin Emmitt (@alkalinesec), Senior Security Researcher at Trellix Advanced Research Center for their assistance.

Kernel

We would like to acknowledge Nick Stenning of Replicate for their assistance.

Shortcuts

We would like to acknowledge Baibhav Anand Jha from ReconWithMe and Cristian Dinca of Tudor Vianu National High School of Computer Science, Romania for their assistance.

WebKit

We would like to acknowledge Eliya Stein of Confiant for their assistance.