Apple iOS and iPadOS Kernel Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Added to KEV
2023-10-05
Federal due date
2023-10-26
Vendor
Apple
Product
iOS and iPadOS
EPSS
76.9th percentile (score 0.010, as of 2026-06-08)
NVD CVSS v3.1
Ransomware use
Unknown
Upstream
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-42824

CISA short description

Apple iOS and iPadOS contain an unspecified vulnerability that allows for local privilege escalation.

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.