Apple Multiple Products Improper Certificate Validation Vulnerability

Added to KEV
2023-09-25
Federal due date
2023-10-16
Vendor
Apple
Product
Multiple Products
EPSS
88.5th percentile (score 0.039, as of 2026-06-08)
NVD CVSS v3.1
Ransomware use
Unknown
Upstream
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-41991

CISA short description

Apple iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS contain an improper certificate validation vulnerability that can allow a malicious app to bypass signature validation.

Required action

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

EPSS percentile is the FIRST.org exploit-probability ranking as of the date noted above; it moves daily. CVSS reflects NVD's analysis at time of publication.