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CVE-2023-41992 Apple CVE debrief

CVE-2023-41992 is an Apple kernel privilege escalation vulnerability affecting multiple products. CISA added the issue to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2023-09-25 and set a remediation due date of 2023-10-16, so organizations should treat it as urgent and verify that Apple’s security updates and mitigations are in place.

Vendor
Apple
Product
Multiple Products
CVSS
Unknown
CISA KEV
Listed
Original CVE published
2023-09-25
Original CVE updated
2023-09-25
Advisory published
2023-09-25
Advisory updated
2023-09-25

Who should care

Apple device administrators, endpoint management teams, security operations teams, and anyone responsible for fleets of Apple products that may not yet be fully updated.

Technical summary

The supplied source material describes CVE-2023-41992 as a kernel privilege escalation vulnerability in Apple Multiple Products. The CISA KEV entry does not provide exploit mechanics, affected versions, or CVSS, but it does mark the flaw as known exploited and directs organizations to apply vendor mitigations or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Defensive priority

High. This is a CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability with a published remediation deadline, which makes prompt patching and mitigation verification a priority for defenders.

Recommended defensive actions

  • Review the Apple security advisories referenced in the CISA KEV notes and confirm which of your Apple devices are in scope.
  • Apply the relevant Apple security updates and vendor-recommended mitigations as soon as possible.
  • Verify patch status across managed Apple endpoints and remediate any devices that remain unpatched.
  • If a specific deployment cannot be mitigated, follow CISA guidance to discontinue use until a fix or mitigation is available.
  • Check that legacy or unsupported Apple devices are not left exposed without a remediation path.

Evidence notes

CISA’s KEV feed identifies CVE-2023-41992 as a known exploited Apple kernel privilege escalation vulnerability, with dateAdded 2023-09-25 and dueDate 2023-10-16. The KEV notes point to Apple support advisories and the NVD record as reference material. No CVSS score was supplied in the provided corpus.

Official resources

CVE published and modified on 2023-09-25 UTC. CISA added the vulnerability to the KEV catalog on 2023-09-25 and set the remediation due date to 2023-10-16.