CVE-2023-43000

Apple Multiple Products Use-After-Free Vulnerability (CVE-2023-43000)

Privilege Escalation Execution Last updated:

Detects exploitation of CVE-2023-43000, a use-after-free vulnerability (CWE-416) affecting multiple Apple products. This vulnerability is listed in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, indicating active exploitation in the wild. Use-after-free conditions in Apple system components can allow attackers to execute arbitrary code, escalate privileges, or achieve kernel-level compromise on affected macOS, iOS, and related platforms.

Vulnerability Intelligence

KEV — Known Exploited

Affected Software

Vendor
Apple
Product
Multiple Products

Weakness (CWE)

Timeline

Disclosed
March 5, 2026

CVSS

Unscored
Write-up coming soon

What is CVE-2023-43000 Apple Multiple Products Use-After-Free Vulnerability (CVE-2023-43000)?

Apple Multiple Products Use-After-Free Vulnerability (CVE-2023-43000) (CVE-2023-43000) maps to the Privilege Escalation and Execution tactics — the adversary is trying to gain higher-level permissions in MITRE ATT&CK.

This page provides production-ready detection logic for Apple Multiple Products Use-After-Free Vulnerability (CVE-2023-43000), covering the data sources and telemetry it touches: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Sentinel, Intune MDM. The queries below are rated high severity at medium confidence, and ship for 7 SIEM platforms — KQL, SPL, Elastic, QRadar, Sumo, YARA-L, LogScale.

MITRE ATT&CK

Tactic
Privilege Escalation Execution
Microsoft Sentinel / Defender
kusto
union DeviceProcessEvents, DeviceEvents
| where Timestamp > ago(7d)
| where DeviceOS has_any ("macOS", "iOS", "iPadOS")
| where (ActionType in ("ProcessCrashed", "ExploitGuardViolation") or FileName in ("sysdiagnose", "ReportCrash", "osanalyticshelper"))
| extend CrashSignal = iff(ActionType == "ProcessCrashed", "process_crash", "exploit_guard")
| join kind=leftouter (
    DeviceNetworkEvents
    | where Timestamp > ago(7d)
    | where RemotePort in (80, 443, 4444, 1337, 8080, 8443)
    | project DeviceId, NetworkTimestamp=Timestamp, RemoteIP, RemotePort, InitiatingProcessFileName
) on DeviceId
| where NetworkTimestamp between ((Timestamp - 5m) .. (Timestamp + 5m)) or isnull(NetworkTimestamp)
| project Timestamp, DeviceId, DeviceName, FileName, ProcessCommandLine, ActionType, CrashSignal, RemoteIP, RemotePort, AccountName
| order by Timestamp desc

Detects Apple device process crashes and exploit guard violations on macOS/iOS endpoints correlated with suspicious outbound network connections, indicative of CVE-2023-43000 use-after-free exploitation attempts.

high severity medium confidence

Data Sources

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Microsoft Sentinel Intune MDM

Required Tables

DeviceProcessEvents DeviceEvents DeviceNetworkEvents

False Positives

  • Legitimate application crashes unrelated to exploitation on macOS endpoints
  • Security research tools or penetration testing frameworks triggering exploit guard
  • System updates or OS patches causing transient process instability
  • Memory-intensive applications crashing due to resource exhaustion rather than exploitation

Sigma rule & cross-platform mapping

The detection logic for Apple Multiple Products Use-After-Free Vulnerability (CVE-2023-43000) (CVE-2023-43000) above is provided in a vendor-neutral form so you can deploy it on any SIEM. The same logic is shipped here as native KQL (Microsoft Sentinel / Defender), SPL (Splunk), Elastic (Elastic Security (EQL)), QRadar (IBM QRadar (AQL)), Sumo (Sumo Logic CSE), YARA-L (Google Chronicle / SecOps), LogScale (CrowdStrike LogScale (CQL)) queries. In Sigma terms, this detection targets the following logsource:

logsource:
  category: process_creation
  product: windows

Browse the community-maintained Sigma rules for this technique:


Testing Methodology

Validate this detection against 3 adversary techniques from Atomic Red Team. Each test below lists the behaviour to exercise and the telemetry you should expect to see. Executable commands and cleanup steps are available with Pro.

  1. Test 1Simulate macOS Use-After-Free Crash with C2-like Network Beacon

    Expected signal: Process crash event for python3, EXC_BAD_ACCESS in crash logs, outbound TCP connection to LAB_C2_HOST:4444 from the same host within 10 seconds of crash

  2. Test 2Invoke CrashReporter from Non-Standard Parent Process

    Expected signal: ProcessRollup2 event for ReportCrash with parent_process=bash; crash report file creation in DiagnosticReports directory

  3. Test 3Mass Crash Generation and External Reachback Simulation

    Expected signal: 5 crash report files created in DiagnosticReports, 5 outbound HTTP connections to LAB_C2_HOST:4444 over ~5 seconds

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