CVE-2023-40307
Privileges Memory Corruption (Out-of-bound write)
An attacker with standard privileges on macOS when requesting administrator privileges from the application can submit input which causes a buffer overflow resulting in a crash of the application. This could make the application unavailable and allow reading or modification of data.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- Low
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- Low
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
CVE List Score used
Privileges Memory Corruption (Out-of-bound write)
An attacker with standard privileges on macOS when requesting administrator privileges from the application can submit input which causes a buffer overflow resulting in a crash of the application. This could make the application unavailable and allow reading or modification of data.
- Record
CVE-2023-40307- CVSS 3.1
- 6.3 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L - Weakness
- CWE-787
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2023-44899
An attacker with standard privileges on macOS when requesting administrator privileges from the application can submit input which causes a buffer overflow resulting in a crash of the application. This could make the application unavailable and allow reading or modification of data.
- Record
EUVD-2023-44899- CVSS 3.1
- 6.3 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L - Updated
- 2026-11-03
NVD
An attacker with standard privileges on macOS when requesting administrator privileges from the application can submit input which causes a buffer overflow resulting in a crash of the application. This could make the application unavailable and allow reading or modification of data.
- Record
CVE-2023-40307- CVSS 3.1
- 6.3 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L - CVSS 3.1
- 7.8 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-787
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSV
Privileges Memory Corruption (Out-of-bound write)
An attacker with standard privileges on macOS when requesting administrator privileges from the application can submit input which causes a buffer overflow resulting in a crash of the application. This could make the application unavailable and allow reading or modification of data.
- Record
CVE-2023-40307- CVSS 3.1
- 6.3 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L - Weakness
- CWE-787
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases, published | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, NVD, OSV |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2023-40307 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.3) in Sap Privileges, published September 28, 2023. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.19%, the 8th percentile. No source names a fixed version.