Medium
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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-40307
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 4 Nov 2026, 13:33 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Privileges Memory Corruption (Out-of-bound write)
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 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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