CVE-2023-28187 Denial of service in macOS

What is CVE-2023-28187?

CVE-2023-28187 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Apple Macos, published on 6 Sep 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

This issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in macOS Ventura 13.3. A user may be able to cause a denial-of-service.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-28187?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Apple Macos.

How do I fix CVE-2023-28187?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-28187 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2023-28187 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-28187 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2026-65400 Apple macOS Improper Authentication Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2024-44146 Security feature bypass in macOS Critical 10.0
• CVE-2024-44148 Security feature bypass in macOS Critical 10.0
• CVE-2023-38586 Security feature bypass in macOS Critical 10.0
• CVE-2023-40455 Security feature bypass in macOS Critical 10.0

All Apple Macos vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-5h63-rqvc-8m6q.