CVE-2024-27872

State: Published
Severity: 5.5 Medium
Published: Jul 29, 2024
Updated: Apr 2, 2026
Reserved: Feb 26, 2024

Description

This issue was addressed with improved validation of symlinks. This issue is fixed in macOS Sonoma 14.6. An app may be able to access protected user data.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-61 UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following

Affected Products

Product	Versions
macOSApple	before 14.6Affected

References

https://support.apple.com/en-us/120911
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT214119
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jul/18
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT214119

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