Threats / Apple / CVE-2023-32434
CVE-2023-32434
· EUVD no mirror located
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Verified 2026-08-04
Apple Multiple Products vulnerability
Integer overflow in Apple iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS allows applications to execute code with kernel privileges.
Verdict
Today item — known-exploited.
An integer overflow vulnerability in multiple Apple operating systems permits privilege escalation to kernel level. Active exploitation in the wild indicates immediate risk to affected users and devices.
CISA KEV Yes · 2023-06-234EPSS 0.51517 (verify live)5Exploit Public PoC6CVSS 7.8 (CISA)3CISA SSVC Exploitation: active · Automatable: no · Impact: total3
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Is it exploitable?
— the evidence, ranked above the scoreExploit available
Public proof-of-concept exploit code is cataloged for this vulnerability.We link the existence of the exploit; we do not host or redistribute payloads.
Reported exploitation
20 independent public reports of in-the-wild exploitation are cataloged.Distinct reporting sources (vendor, incident response, government); open them for the underlying claims.
Exploited in the wild
Listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2023-06-23).
Probability (EPSS)
EPSS 0.51517 — modeled likelihood of exploitation activity.EPSS is a daily-changing model output — open the source for today's value.
Severity / affected
CVSS 7.8 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H) · Affected: Apple, Multiple Products. Confirm exact fixed builds in the vendor advisory.CVSS — CISA-assigned via the ADP container (CVE.org), version 3.1; the CNA left no metrics, so CISA's own score is used ahead of NVD.
Weakness (CWE)
Mapped to CWE-190 Integer Overflow — weakness family: Memory safety.CWE assignment from the public NVD record (may be stale); the weakness class drives how the flaw is exploited.
CISA SSVC (triage disposition)
Exploitation: active · Automatable: no · Technical Impact: totalCISA's own stakeholder-specific triage inputs, published in the CVE record (CISA Coordinator role). NOTE: this is CISA's three decision points; the final Act/Attend/Track decision also requires a Mission & Well-being input not published here, so no overall decision is asserted.
Currency of the record
CISA added this to its KEV catalog the same day the CVE record was published.KEV lag = CISA-KEV dateAdded − CVE.org datePublished; a floor on how long the known-exploited flaw sat in the public record before the federal catalog listed it. Severity/weakness here is CNA- or CISA-assigned (current at disclosure), independent of NVD's analysis backlog.
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Who’s exploiting it?
— attribution turns risk into urgencyAttribution not established
No confirmed (advisory-backed) threat-actor attribution is established for this record. Absence of a named actor is not absence of compromise — see Coverage & confidence.
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Why it matters
— the attack path, told twice: adversary, then board1
Front door — unauthenticated access narrative 1
Attacker
I craft a malicious application that triggers an integer overflow condition in the affected OS component.
Business
User devices running vulnerable Apple OS versions face direct compromise risk from untrusted applications.
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Keys to the kingdom — privilege/identity takeover narrative 2
Attacker
I exploit the overflow to corrupt memory structures and bypass privilege boundaries.
Business
Kernel-level code execution enables complete device control, bypassing all OS-level security controls.
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Lateral reach — past segmentation narrative 3
Attacker
I achieve persistent access and exfiltrate sensitive data or install backdoors.
Business
Customer data confidentiality and device integrity are compromised across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS ecosystems.
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What to do
— defensible action- Remediate per the vendor advisory — confirm the fixed build for your version and verify exposure.1
Say it to the boardA vulnerability with this evidence profile is a defensible budget line, not a backlog ticket — fund the change against the proof above.
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