CVE-2023-42916

MEDIUMNVD 6.59.0▲
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score elevated to 9.0 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2023-12-04), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 6.5 retained for reference. Confidence: HIGH.

Triggered by: CISA KEV (actively exploited)
Sources: cisa_kev, epss, ghsa, nvd
Trending — 5 sources updated this weekExploited in the wild
6.5
EchelonGraph verdictPatch nowTreat as an emergency — this is being exploited.
  • Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV)
CISA-KEV: ExploitedEPSS: 18%CVSS: 6.5Exploit: NoneExposed: 0

A fix is available — apply it.

An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation. This issue is fixed in iOS 17.1.2 and iPadOS 17.1.2, macOS Sonoma 14.1.2, Safari 17.1.2. Processing web content may disclose sensitive information. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited against versions of iOS before iOS 16.7.1.

CVSS v3
6.5
EG Score
9.0(high)
EG Risk
81(Attend)
EG Risk 81/100SSVC: Attend

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity90% × 45%
Exploitation100% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
Action: Remediate soon — notable exploitation risk.
EPSS
96.9%
KEV
⚠ Exploited

Published

November 30, 2023

Last Modified

June 17, 2026

Advisory Details (10)

Auto-updated Jun 12, 2026
No patch confirmed yet.
generic

[SECURITY] Fedora 39 Update: webkitgtk-2.42.3-1.fc39 - package-announce - Fedora mailing-lists

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/P5LQS6VEI7VIZNC7QGQ62EOV45R5RJIR/
generic

[SECURITY] Fedora 38 Update: webkitgtk-2.42.3-1.fc38 - package-announce - Fedora mailing-lists

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AD2KIHHCUBQC2YYH3FJWAHI5BG3QETOH/
generic

oss-security - WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit Security Advisory WSA-2023-0011

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/05/1
generic

Full Disclosure: APPLE-SA-01-22-2024-4 iOS 15.8.1 and iPadOS 15.8.1

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jan/35
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Full Disclosure: APPLE-SA-12-11-2023-3 iOS 16.7.3 and iPadOS 16.7.3

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Dec/8
generic

Full Disclosure: APPLE-SA-11-30-2023-3 macOS Sonoma 14.1.2

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Dec/5
generic

Full Disclosure: APPLE-SA-11-30-2023-2 iOS 17.1.2 and iPadOS 17.1.2

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Dec/4
generic

Full Disclosure: APPLE-SA-11-30-2023-1 Safari 17.1.2

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Dec/3
generic

Full Disclosure: APPLE-SA-12-11-2023-8 watchOS 10.2

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Dec/13
generic

Full Disclosure: APPLE-SA-12-11-2023-7 tvOS 17.2

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Dec/12

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2023-42916(3)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(4)

Vendor / EcosystemFixed in / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntuwebkit2gtk-driver (2.42.3-0ubuntu0.23.10.1) @ mantic2026-07-22ubuntu
redhatwebkitgtk4-0:2.48.3-2.el7_92025-07-07redhat
redhatwebkit2gtk3-0:2.38.5-1.el8_8.52023-07-18redhat
redhatwebkit2gtk3-0:2.38.5-1.el9_2.32023-07-18redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Additional Vendor Advisories

(1)

Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 102× in last 7d / 413× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 750 total refreshes for this CVE.

  1. 2026-07-23 02:26 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-07-23 00:21 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-07-23 00:21 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-07-23 00:21 UTCGHSA enrichment
  5. 2026-07-22 23:13 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-07-22 20:15 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-07-22 20:15 UTCGHSA enrichment
  8. 2026-07-22 19:40 UTCCISA KEV update
  9. 2026-07-22 16:08 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-07-22 16:08 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-07-22 16:08 UTCGHSA enrichment
  12. 2026-07-22 14:06 UTCEPSS rescore
  13. 2026-07-22 12:02 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-07-22 12:02 UTCGHSA enrichment
  15. 2026-07-22 07:55 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-07-22 07:55 UTCGHSA enrichment
  17. 2026-07-22 03:49 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-07-22 03:48 UTCGHSA enrichment
  19. 2026-07-21 23:41 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-07-21 23:40 UTCGHSA enrichment
  21. 2026-07-21 17:42 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-07-21 17:42 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-07-21 17:41 UTCGHSA enrichment
  24. 2026-07-21 15:23 UTCEPSS rescore
  25. 2026-07-21 15:23 UTCEPSS rescore
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  1. 2026-07-21 14:37 UTCCISA KEV update
  2. 2026-07-21 13:35 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-07-21 13:35 UTCGHSA enrichment
  4. 2026-07-21 09:29 UTCVendor advisory
  5. 2026-07-21 09:28 UTCGHSA enrichment
  6. 2026-07-21 05:22 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-07-21 05:21 UTCGHSA enrichment
  8. 2026-07-21 01:14 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-07-21 01:14 UTCGHSA enrichment
  10. 2026-07-20 21:08 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-07-20 21:08 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-07-20 21:07 UTCGHSA enrichment
  13. 2026-07-20 17:06 UTCEPSS rescore
  14. 2026-07-20 17:02 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-07-20 17:01 UTCGHSA enrichment
  16. 2026-07-20 12:54 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-07-20 12:54 UTCGHSA enrichment
  18. 2026-07-20 08:48 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-07-20 08:48 UTCGHSA enrichment
  20. 2026-07-20 04:42 UTCVendor advisory
  21. 2026-07-20 04:42 UTCGHSA enrichment
  22. 2026-07-20 00:36 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-07-20 00:36 UTCGHSA enrichment
  24. 2026-07-19 20:29 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-07-19 20:29 UTCGHSA enrichment
  26. 2026-07-19 16:23 UTCEG score recompute
  27. 2026-07-19 16:23 UTCVendor advisory
  28. 2026-07-19 16:23 UTCGHSA enrichment
  29. 2026-07-19 14:29 UTCEPSS rescore
  30. 2026-07-19 12:17 UTCVendor advisory
  31. 2026-07-19 12:17 UTCGHSA enrichment
  32. 2026-07-19 08:12 UTCVendor advisory
  33. 2026-07-19 08:12 UTCGHSA enrichment
  34. 2026-07-19 04:05 UTCEG score recompute
  35. 2026-07-19 04:05 UTCVendor advisory
  36. 2026-07-19 04:05 UTCGHSA enrichment
  37. 2026-07-19 02:27 UTCEPSS rescore
  38. 2026-07-18 23:57 UTCVendor advisory
  39. 2026-07-18 23:57 UTCGHSA enrichment
  40. 2026-07-18 19:51 UTCVendor advisory
  41. 2026-07-18 19:51 UTCGHSA enrichment
  42. 2026-07-18 15:45 UTCVendor advisory
  43. 2026-07-18 15:45 UTCGHSA enrichment
  44. 2026-07-18 11:39 UTCEG score recompute
  45. 2026-07-18 11:39 UTCVendor advisory
  46. 2026-07-18 11:39 UTCGHSA enrichment
  47. 2026-07-18 10:03 UTCEPSS rescore
  48. 2026-07-18 10:03 UTCEPSS rescore
  49. 2026-07-18 07:33 UTCVendor advisory
  50. 2026-07-18 07:33 UTCGHSA enrichment
  51. 2026-07-18 03:27 UTCVendor advisory
  52. 2026-07-18 03:27 UTCGHSA enrichment
  53. 2026-07-17 23:21 UTCVendor advisory
  54. 2026-07-17 23:21 UTCGHSA enrichment
  55. 2026-07-17 19:15 UTCVendor advisory
  56. 2026-07-17 19:15 UTCGHSA enrichment
  57. 2026-07-17 15:09 UTCVendor advisory
  58. 2026-07-17 15:09 UTCGHSA enrichment
  59. 2026-07-17 11:02 UTCVendor advisory
  60. 2026-07-17 11:02 UTCGHSA enrichment
  61. 2026-07-17 06:56 UTCVendor advisory
  62. 2026-07-17 06:56 UTCGHSA enrichment
  63. 2026-07-17 02:50 UTCVendor advisory
  64. 2026-07-17 02:49 UTCGHSA enrichment
  65. 2026-07-16 22:44 UTCVendor advisory
  66. 2026-07-16 22:44 UTCGHSA enrichment
  67. 2026-07-16 18:38 UTCVendor advisory
  68. 2026-07-16 18:38 UTCGHSA enrichment
  69. 2026-07-16 17:04 UTCCISA KEV update
  70. 2026-07-16 17:01 UTCEPSS rescore
  71. 2026-07-16 17:01 UTCEPSS rescore
  72. 2026-07-16 14:32 UTCVendor advisory
  73. 2026-07-16 14:32 UTCGHSA enrichment
  74. 2026-07-16 10:25 UTCVendor advisory
  75. 2026-07-16 10:25 UTCGHSA enrichment

Frequently asked(6)

What is CVE-2023-42916?
CVE-2023-42916 is a medium vulnerability published on November 30, 2023. An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation. This issue is fixed in iOS 17.1.2 and iPadOS 17.1.2, macOS Sonoma 14.1.2, Safari 17.1.2. Processing web content may disclose sensitive information. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited against versions…
When was CVE-2023-42916 disclosed?
CVE-2023-42916 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on November 30, 2023, with the most recent update on June 17, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2023-42916 actively exploited?
Yes. CISA added CVE-2023-42916 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on December 4, 2023, affecting Apple Multiple Products. KEV listing indicates confirmed exploitation in the wild; this CVE warrants immediate patching attention.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2023-42916?
CVE-2023-42916 has a CVSS v3 base score of 6.5 (NVD). EchelonGraph synthesises NVD + CISA KEV + FIRST EPSS + GHSA into a combined EG score of 9.0.
Which products are affected by CVE-2023-42916?
CVE-2023-42916 affects Apple Multiple Products. The full affected-products list, including version ranges and fixed versions, is shown in the Affected Packages section of this page.
How do I remediate CVE-2023-42916?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2023-42916, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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