CVE-2025-24242

Published Mar 31, 2025

Last updated 7 days ago

CVSS medium 4.4

Overview

Description: This issue was addressed with improved handling of symlinks. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.4. An app with root privileges may be able to access private information.
Source: product-security@apple.com
NVD status: Analyzed

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type: Secondary
Base score: 4.4
Impact score: 3.6
Exploitability score: 0.8
Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Severity: MEDIUM

Weaknesses

134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0: CWE-59

Hype score is a measure of social media activity compared against trending CVEs from the past 12 months. Max score 100.

Hype score: 2

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:apple:macos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "E3BD0A90-23F1-430A-8119-E14055F7E621",
            "versionEndExcluding": "15.4"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References