Contact information disclosure via insufficient AppleEvents redaction
Published Dec 12, 2023 · Updated Nov 4, 2025
Information disclosure in AppleEvents in Apple macOS allows local users to read information about a user's contacts through a local app. Apple reports that AppleEvents insufficiently redacts sensitive contact information, but has not disclosed the affected request path, field, or data-flow error. Execution of an app and user interaction are required; the reported consequence is contact-data disclosure, with no integrity or availability impact.
Summary
What happened
Information disclosure in AppleEvents in Apple macOS allows local users to read information about a user's contacts through a local app. Apple reports that AppleEvents insufficiently redacts sensitive contact information, but has not disclosed the affected request path, field, or data-flow error. Execution of an app and user interaction are required; the reported consequence is contact-data disclosure, with no integrity or availability impact.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2023-42894
- Published
- Dec 12, 2023
- Updated
- Nov 4, 2025
- Vendor
- Apple
- Product
- macOS
- Classifications
- T1005
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Dec 12, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Nov 4, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=unspecified <12.7
- Affected versionversion=unspecified <13.6
- Affected versionversion=unspecified <14.2
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