{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 3 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-40397 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade to a fixed version.","what":"CVE-2023-40397 is a critical cross-site scripting vulnerability in Apple Macos, published on 6 Sep 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2023-40397 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-40397 is a critical cross-site scripting vulnerability in Apple Macos, published on 6 Sep 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-40397 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Apple Macos. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-40397/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-40397/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-40397","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-40397/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-40397","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2023-40397","GHSA-6x6m-3789-2cmw","UBUNTU-CVE-2023-40397"],"analysis":{"component_type":"operating_system","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["code_execution"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"macOS","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A remote attacker can execute arbitrary JavaScript code in macOS due to insufficient checks, requiring an OS upgrade to mitigate.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"xss"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"apple","cpe":[{"product":"macos","vendor":"apple"},{"product":"webkitgtk","vendor":"webkitgtk"},{"product":"wpe_webkit","vendor":"wpewebkit"}],"cvss":{"score":9.8,"severity":"critical","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[],"description":"The issue was addressed with improved checks. This issue is fixed in macOS Ventura 13.5. 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