CVE-2025-24136

State: Published
Severity: 4.4 Medium
Published: Jan 27, 2025
Updated: Apr 2, 2026
Reserved: Jan 17, 2025

Description

This issue was addressed with improved validation of symlinks. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.3, macOS Sonoma 14.7.3, macOS Ventura 13.7.3. A malicious app may be able to create symlinks to protected regions of the disk.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	4.4 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
macOSApple	before 13.7.3Affected before 14.7.3Affected before 15.3Affected

References

https://support.apple.com/en-us/122068
https://support.apple.com/en-us/122069
https://support.apple.com/en-us/122070
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jan/17
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jan/16
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jan/15

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