When Apple released iOS & iPadOS 16.7 back in 2023, they patched a security vulnerability discovered by Bill Marczak that has since been coined CVE-2023-41992. Apple noted in the online ‘About the security content of iOS 16.7 and iPadOS 16.7’ support document page that this was a kernel vulnerability that may have enabled an attacker to elevate their privileges.
Security researcher shares PoC for CVE-2023-41992 local privilege escalation bug