CVE-2024-44264 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

This issue was addressed with improved validation of symlinks. This issue is fixed in macOS Ventura 13.7.1, macOS Sonoma 14.7.1. A malicious app may be able to create symlinks to protected regions of the disk.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00099.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Apple	Macos

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:apple:macos::::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:apple:macos::::::::

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Advisories

No advisories yet.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://support.apple.com/en-us/121568
https://support.apple.com/en-us/121570

History

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00054}`	epss `{'score': 0.0007}`

Wed, 30 Oct 2024 18:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Apple Apple macos
Weaknesses		CWE-59
CPEs		cpe:2.3:o:apple:macos::::::::
Vendors & Products		Apple Apple macos
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N'}` ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Mon, 28 Oct 2024 21:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		This issue was addressed with improved validation of symlinks. This issue is fixed in macOS Ventura 13.7.1, macOS Sonoma 14.7.1. A malicious app may be able to create symlinks to protected regions of the disk.
References		https://support.apple.com/en-us/121568 https://support.apple.com/en-us/121570

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: apple

Published: 2024-10-28T21:08:06.383Z

Updated: 2024-10-30T17:58:53.654Z

Reserved: 2024-08-20T21:45:40.788Z

Link: CVE-2024-44264

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-10-30T17:58:42.764Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-10-28T21:15:07.393

Modified: 2024-10-30T18:37:01.203

Link: CVE-2024-44264

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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