Sensitive-data disclosure via unsanitized Core Recents logging
Published Feb 21, 2024 · Updated Nov 4, 2025
Information disclosure in Core Recents across affected Apple operating systems allows local users to read user-sensitive data through an app. Core Recents writes sensitive values to logs without sanitizing them, making those values available to an app that can read the resulting log data. Execution of an app on the device is required; the published impact is limited to disclosure, with no reported data modification or service interruption.
Summary
What happened
Information disclosure in Core Recents across affected Apple operating systems allows local users to read user-sensitive data through an app. Core Recents writes sensitive values to logs without sanitizing them, making those values available to an app that can read the resulting log data. Execution of an app on the device is required; the published impact is limited to disclosure, with no reported data modification or service interruption.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2023-42823
- Published
- Feb 21, 2024
- Updated
- Nov 4, 2025
- Vendor
- Apple
- Product
- iOS and iPadOS
- Classifications
- CWE-922, T1005
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- Unavailable
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Feb 21, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Nov 4, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=unspecified <16.7
- Affected versionversion=unspecified <17.1
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