CVE-2024-23285

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 High
Published: Mar 8, 2024
Updated: Apr 2, 2026
Reserved: Jan 12, 2024

Description

This issue was addressed with improved handling of symlinks. This issue is fixed in macOS Sonoma 14.4. An app may be able to create symlinks to protected regions of the disk.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-61 UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following

Affected Products

Product	Versions
macOSApple	before 14.4Affected

References

https://support.apple.com/en-us/120895
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT214084
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Mar/21
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT214084

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