CVE-2023-40438 (GCVE-0-2023-40438)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-01-10 22:03
Modified
2025-06-20 15:42
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • An app may be able to access edited photos saved to a temporary directory
Summary
An issue was addressed with improved handling of temporary files. This issue is fixed in macOS Sonoma 14, iOS 16.7 and iPadOS 16.7. An app may be able to access edited photos saved to a temporary directory.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Apple iOS and iPadOS Version: unspecified   < 16.7
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   Apple macOS Version: unspecified   < 14
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