CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-43298
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-09-15
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-41
Description
A parsing issue in the handling of directory paths was addressed with improved path validation. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.7, macOS Sonoma 14.8, macOS Tahoe 26. An app may be able to gain root privileges.
Affected configurations
• apple macos (>= 14.0 < 14.8)
• apple macos (>= 15.0 < 15.7)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-41 Improper Resolution of Path Equivalence weakness
References
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/125110 support.apple.com
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/125111 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/125112 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Sep/53 seclists.org
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Sep/54 seclists.org
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Sep/55 seclists.org