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Privileges Memory Corruption (Out-of-bound write)

Type: advisorySources: OSV

An attacker with standard privileges on macOS when requesting administrator privileges from the application can submit input which causes a buffer overflow resulting in a crash of the application. This could make the application unavailable and allow reading or modification of data.

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CVEs
CVE-2023-40307
Confirmed fixed CVEs
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4 Nov 2026, 13:33 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

Privileges Memory Corruption (Out-of-bound write)

core-osv · Original source

Published 28 Sept 2023, 13:55 UTC

An attacker with standard privileges on macOS when requesting administrator privileges from the application can submit input which causes a buffer overflow resulting in a crash of the application. This could make the application unavailable and allow reading or modification of data.

osv:CVE-2023-40307
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-40307",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:35.863496387Z",
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