CVE-2025-24136 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00025.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Apple	Macos

Configuration 1 [-]

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

No data.

No data.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://support.apple.com/en-us/122068
https://support.apple.com/en-us/122069
https://support.apple.com/en-us/122070

History

Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 18:30:00 +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': 4.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N'}`

Mon, 27 Jan 2025 22:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		This issue was addressed with improved validation of symlinks. This issue is fixed in macOS Ventura 13.7.3, macOS Sequoia 15.3, macOS Sonoma 14.7.3. A malicious app may be able to create symlinks to protected regions of the disk.
References		https://support.apple.com/en-us/122068 https://support.apple.com/en-us/122069 https://support.apple.com/en-us/122070

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: apple

Published: 2025-01-27T21:46:18.979Z

Updated: 2025-02-04T21:30:04.123Z

Reserved: 2025-01-17T00:00:44.974Z

Link: CVE-2025-24136

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-01-28T17:19:51.162Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2025-01-27T22:15:18.340

Modified: 2025-02-04T22:15:42.370

Link: CVE-2025-24136

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

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