CVE-2025-43206

State: Published
Severity: 4.0 Medium
Published: Jul 29, 2025
Updated: Apr 2, 2026
Reserved: Apr 16, 2025

Description

A parsing issue in the handling of directory paths was addressed with improved path validation. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.6, macOS Sonoma 14.7.7, macOS Ventura 13.7.7. An app may be able to access protected user data.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	4.0 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
macOSApple	before 13.7.7Affected before 14.7.7Affected before 15.6Affected

References

https://support.apple.com/en-us/124149
https://support.apple.com/en-us/124150
https://support.apple.com/en-us/124151
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jul/34
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jul/33
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jul/32

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