Sensitive location disclosure via inadequate redaction
Published Dec 12, 2023 · Updated Nov 4, 2025
Information disclosure in an Apple location-tracking component allows local users to read sensitive location data through an app. The component inadequately redacts sensitive location values before making them accessible to an application; Apple has not disclosed the exact data path. Exploitation requires a local app and user interaction, and the documented consequence is location-data disclosure without integrity or availability impact.
Summary
What happened
Information disclosure in an Apple location-tracking component allows local users to read sensitive location data through an app. The component inadequately redacts sensitive location values before making them accessible to an application; Apple has not disclosed the exact data path. Exploitation requires a local app and user interaction, and the documented consequence is location-data disclosure without integrity or availability impact.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2023-42922
- Published
- Dec 12, 2023
- Updated
- Nov 4, 2025
- Vendor
- Apple
- Product
- iOS and iPadOS
- 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 <17.2
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