CVE-2023-42941 Denial of service in iOS and iPadOS
An attacker in a privileged network position can cause a denial-of-service on iOS and iPadOS devices via crafted Bluetooth packets.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2023-42941?
CVE-2023-42941 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Apple Ipados, published on 10 Jan 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The issue was addressed with improved checks. This issue is fixed in iOS 17.2 and iPadOS 17.2. An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to perform a denial-of-service attack using crafted Bluetooth packets.
Weakness: CWE-400
Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-42941?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Apple Ipados, Apple Iphone Os.
How do I fix CVE-2023-42941?
No fix has been published for CVE-2023-42941 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-2023-42941 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-42941 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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- CVE-2025-24201 Apple Multiple Products WebKit Out-of-Bounds Write
- CVE-2025-24085 Apple Multiple Products Use-After-Free
- CVE-2025-31200 Apple Multiple Products Memory Corruption
- CVE-2025-31201 Apple Multiple Products Arbitrary Read and Write
Sources
Also known as GHSA-7v39-pqxg-4xwf.