The issue was addressed with improved checks. This issue is fixed in macOS Sonoma 14. Processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited against versions of iOS before iOS 16.7.
CVE-2023-41993
“▲” beside the score: it is higher than NVD's CVSS score.
Score elevated to 9.8 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2023-09-25), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 8.8 retained for reference. Confidence: HIGH.
- Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV) — the reason this is sooner than the SSVC decision on this page at low or medium mission impact
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 8.8
- EG Score
- 9.8CRITICALhigh confidence
- EG Risk
- 84EG Risk 84/100
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.
How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)Severity98% × 45%Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.Exploitation100% × 40%Fixed at 100% for a CISA KEV listing: EchelonGraph's rule.Automatability0% × 15%CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low, sooner than that at medium and as soon as possible at high mission impact. - EPSS PROB
- 24%
- EPSS %ILE
- 97th
- KEV
- ⚠ Exploited
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
- EG Likelihood
- 24% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-21). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- CISA KEV and EG-KEV Tier 1 (exploited in the wild)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Attend at medium mission impactTrack at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low, sooner than that at medium and as soon as possible at high mission impact.
Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.
In CISA KEV yes (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it
CISA required action“Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.”
Quoted verbatim from CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. CISA directs it at US federal civilian executive branch agencies under Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04, which replaced BOD 22-01 on 10 June 2026; it is not EchelonGraph's advice. CISA's notes: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213926 · https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213927 · https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213930 · https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-41993
Published
September 21, 2023
Last Modified
June 17, 2026
Advisory Details (7)
Auto-updated Oct 19, 2026Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA
Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA. Listed in CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2023-41993WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit Security Advisory WSA-2023-0009 - The WebKitGTK Project
https://webkitgtk.org/security/WSA-2023-0009.htmlAbout the security content of Safari 16.6.1 - Apple Support
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213930About the security content of iOS 17.0.1 and iPadOS 17.0.1 - Apple Support
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213926About the security content of macOS Sonoma 14 - Apple Support
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213940WebKitGTK+: Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202401-33) — Gentoo security
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-33Vendor Advisories for CVE-2023-41993(3)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Patch Availability(4)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fix (by version range) / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | webkit2gtk-driver (2.42.1-0ubuntu0.23.04.1) @ lunar | 2026-10-21 | ubuntu |
| redhat | webkitgtk4-0:2.48.3-2.el7_9 | 2025-07-07 | redhat |
| redhat | webkit2gtk3-0:2.38.5-1.el9_2.3 | 2023-07-18 | redhat |
| redhat | webkit2gtk3-0:2.38.5-1.el8_8.5 | 2023-07-18 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(8 across 4 ecosystems)
Debian:11(2)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| webkit2gtk | 2.32.3-1 ... 2.42.1-1~bpo12+1 (109 versions) |
| — |
| wpewebkit | 2.32.3-2 ... 2.52.5-1 (90 versions) |
| — |
Debian:12(2)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| webkit2gtk | 2.40.1-1 ... 2.42.1-1~deb11u2 (26 versions) |
| — |
| wpewebkit | 2.38.6-1 ... 2.52.6-1 (54 versions) |
| — |
Debian:13(2)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| webkit2gtk | — |
| — |
| wpewebkit | — |
| — |
Debian:14(2)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| webkit2gtk | — |
| — |
| wpewebkit | — |
| — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Additional Vendor Advisories
(1)
Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 25× in last 7d / 301× in last 30d)
Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.
Showing the most recent 100 of 1,853 refreshes on record for this CVE.
A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 1,753 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.
- 2026-10-22 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 24% · 97th percentile
- 2026-10-22 14:27 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-22 14:27 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-22 14:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2hcr-79rm-r8rp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-21 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 24% · 97th percentile
- 2026-10-21 13:34 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-21 13:34 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-21 13:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2hcr-79rm-r8rp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-20 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 24% · 97th percentile
- 2026-10-20 12:42 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-20 12:42 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-20 12:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2hcr-79rm-r8rp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-19 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 24% · 97th percentile
- 2026-10-19 11:50 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-19 11:50 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-19 11:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2hcr-79rm-r8rp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-18 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 24% · 97th percentile
- 2026-10-18 10:56 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-18 10:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2hcr-79rm-r8rp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-18 07:52 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-17 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 24% · 97th percentile
- 2026-10-17 10:03 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-17 10:03 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-17 10:03 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2hcr-79rm-r8rp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-16 16:36 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 24% · 97th percentile
Show 75 moreShow fewer
- 2026-10-16 09:09 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-16 09:09 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-16 09:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2hcr-79rm-r8rp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-15 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 24% · 97th percentile
- 2026-10-15 08:17 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-15 08:17 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-15 08:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2hcr-79rm-r8rp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-14 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 24% · 97th percentile
- 2026-10-14 07:23 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-14 07:23 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-14 07:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2hcr-79rm-r8rp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-13 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 24% · 97th percentile
- 2026-10-13 06:28 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-13 06:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2hcr-79rm-r8rp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-12 18:19 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-12 05:36 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-12 05:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2hcr-79rm-r8rp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-12 01:23 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-12 01:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2hcr-79rm-r8rp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-11 21:12 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-11 21:12 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-11 21:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2hcr-79rm-r8rp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-11 17:02 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-11 17:02 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-11 17:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2hcr-79rm-r8rp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-11 13:45 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 24% · 97th percentile
- 2026-10-11 12:53 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-11 12:53 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-11 12:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2hcr-79rm-r8rp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-11 08:44 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-11 08:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2hcr-79rm-r8rp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-11 04:34 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-11 04:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2hcr-79rm-r8rp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-11 00:23 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-11 00:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2hcr-79rm-r8rp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-10 20:12 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-10 20:12 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-10 20:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2hcr-79rm-r8rp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-10 19:57 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 24% · 97th percentile
- 2026-10-10 16:03 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-10 16:03 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2hcr-79rm-r8rp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-10 11:54 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-10 11:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2hcr-79rm-r8rp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-10 07:44 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-10 07:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2hcr-79rm-r8rp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-10 03:34 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-10 03:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2hcr-79rm-r8rp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-09 23:25 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-09 23:25 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-09 23:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2hcr-79rm-r8rp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-09 20:05 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 24% · 97th percentile
- 2026-10-09 19:16 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-09 19:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2hcr-79rm-r8rp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-09 15:07 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-09 15:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2hcr-79rm-r8rp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-09 10:57 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-09 10:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2hcr-79rm-r8rp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-09 06:48 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-09 06:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2hcr-79rm-r8rp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-09 02:38 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-09 02:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2hcr-79rm-r8rp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-08 22:29 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-08 22:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2hcr-79rm-r8rp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-08 18:19 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-08 18:19 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-08 18:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2hcr-79rm-r8rp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-08 17:06 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 24% · 97th percentile
- 2026-10-08 14:10 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-08 14:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2hcr-79rm-r8rp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-08 09:58 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-08 09:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2hcr-79rm-r8rp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-08 05:49 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-08 05:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2hcr-79rm-r8rp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-08 01:41 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-08 01:41 UTCVendor advisory
Publicly available exploits
(3 references)Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (3 GitHub PoCs). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.
- GitHub PoC0x06060606/CVE-2023-41993Published Oct 16, 2023
CVE-2023-41993
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoChrtowii/cve-2023-41993-testPublished Oct 16, 2023
testing poc
Open source ↗ - Open source ↗GitHub PoCpo6ix/POC-for-CVE-2023-41993Published Oct 15, 2023
Related CVEs(same product + same vendor + same CWE)
Same product
10 shownDebian:11:wpewebkit
- CVE-2025-24201EG 10.0 KEVEPSS p90CRITICAL
- CVE-2020-13753EG 10.0CRITICAL
- CVE-2025-43343EG 9.8CRITICAL
- CVE-2025-43342EG 9.8CRITICAL
- CVE-2025-30427NVD 4.3EG 9.8CRITICAL
- CVE-2025-24264EG 9.8CRITICAL
- CVE-2025-24162NVD 6.5EG 9.8CRITICAL
- CVE-2024-54534EG 9.8CRITICAL
- CVE-2024-40782NVD 6.5EG 9.8CRITICAL
- CVE-2023-40414EG 9.8CRITICAL
Same vendor
10 shownredhat:RHSA-2023:4201
- CVE-2023-41074EG 8.8EPSS p91HIGH
- CVE-2025-24264EG 9.8CRITICAL
- CVE-2024-23222NVD 8.8EG 9.0 KEVEPSS p96CRITICAL
- CVE-2023-42916NVD 6.5EG 9.0 KEVEPSS p97CRITICAL
- CVE-2023-37450NVD 8.8EG 9.0 KEVEPSS p97CRITICAL
- CVE-2023-32439NVD 8.8EG 9.0 KEVEPSS p98CRITICAL
- CVE-2023-32435NVD 8.8EG 9.0 KEVEPSS p98CRITICAL
- CVE-2025-31204EG 8.8HIGH
- CVE-2024-27833EG 8.8HIGH
- CVE-2024-27808EG 8.8HIGH
Same CWE
10 shownCWE-754
Frequently asked(6)
What is CVE-2023-41993?
When was the CVE record for CVE-2023-41993 published?
Is CVE-2023-41993 actively exploited?
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2023-41993?
Which products are affected by CVE-2023-41993?
How do I remediate CVE-2023-41993?
Dependency Blast Radius
See which npm, PyPI, Go, and Maven packages are affected by CVE-2023-41993
Is Your Infrastructure Affected by CVE-2023-41993?
EchelonGraph automatically scans your cloud infrastructure and maps CVE exposure using blast radius analysis.