CVE-2023-28180 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

A denial-of-service issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in macOS Ventura 13.3. A user in a privileged network position may be able to cause a denial-of-service.

Published: 2023-05-08

Score: 6.5 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Apple

macOS

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`unspecified`	affected	< 13.3

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:apple:macos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

No data.

No data available yet.

Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-31888	A denial-of-service issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in macOS Ventura 13.3. A user in a privileged network position may be able to cause a denial-of-service.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00304.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213670
https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2022-1678

History

Tue, 04 Nov 2025 20:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
References		https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2022-1678

Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Apple Macos

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: apple

Published: 2023-05-08T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-11-04T19:15:48.161Z

Reserved: 2023-03-13T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2023-28180

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T12:30:24.564Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-05-08T20:15:19.220

Modified: 2025-11-04T20:16:25.560

Link: CVE-2023-28180

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-noinfo

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