Process-memory disclosure via insufficient ImageIO checks
Published Jan 23, 2024 · Updated Nov 4, 2025
Information disclosure in ImageIO in affected Apple operating systems allows attackers to read process memory via a malicious image. ImageIO processes attacker-controlled image data with checks that Apple found insufficient, but Apple has not disclosed the specific check, parser operation, or image format involved. A target must process the crafted image; NVD rates the path as local and requiring user interaction, and the reported consequence is limited to process-memory disclosure.
Summary
What happened
Information disclosure in ImageIO in affected Apple operating systems allows attackers to read process memory via a malicious image. ImageIO processes attacker-controlled image data with checks that Apple found insufficient, but Apple has not disclosed the specific check, parser operation, or image format involved. A target must process the crafted image; NVD rates the path as local and requiring user interaction, and the reported consequence is limited to process-memory disclosure.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2023-42888
- Published
- Jan 23, 2024
- Updated
- Nov 4, 2025
- Vendor
- Apple
- Product
- iOS and iPadOS
- Classifications
- CWE-200, T1204.002
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Jan 23, 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 <17.2
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