CVE-2025-30457 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

This issue was addressed with improved validation of symlinks. This issue is fixed in macOS Ventura 13.7.5, macOS Sequoia 15.4, macOS Sonoma 14.7.5. 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 High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00096.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact total

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::::::::

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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/122373
https://support.apple.com/en-us/122374
https://support.apple.com/en-us/122375

History

Fri, 04 Apr 2025 18:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Apple Apple macos
CPEs		cpe:2.3:o:apple:macos::::::::
Vendors & Products		Apple Apple macos

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 14:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-59
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 9.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}` ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 22:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		This issue was addressed with improved validation of symlinks. This issue is fixed in macOS Ventura 13.7.5, macOS Sequoia 15.4, macOS Sonoma 14.7.5. A malicious app may be able to create symlinks to protected regions of the disk.
References		https://support.apple.com/en-us/122373 https://support.apple.com/en-us/122374 https://support.apple.com/en-us/122375

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: apple

Published: 2025-03-31T22:23:25.244Z

Updated: 2025-04-01T13:36:54.679Z

Reserved: 2025-03-22T00:04:43.720Z

Link: CVE-2025-30457

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-04-01T13:35:09.967Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2025-03-31T23:15:27.213

Modified: 2025-04-04T18:12:47.103

Link: CVE-2025-30457

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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