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CVE-2025-24136
This issue was addressed with improved validation of symlinks. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.3, macOS Sonoma 14.7.3, macOS…
- 4.4MediumCVSS base score
- 0.29%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 79% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
This issue was addressed with improved validation of symlinks. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.3, macOS Sonoma 14.7.3, macOS Ventura 13.7.3. A malicious app may be able to create symlinks to protected regions of the disk.
Timeline
ID reserved
By apple
- 10 days later
· 10 days later
Published
- 14 months later
· 14 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | Medium4.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium4.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.29% · top 79% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.4.
Affected products
References
References6
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/122068 (opens in a new tab)
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/122069 (opens in a new tab)
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/122070 (opens in a new tab)
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jan/17 (opens in a new tab)
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jan/16 (opens in a new tab)
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jan/15 (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2025-3644 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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