CVE-2025-30457

CVSS 3.1 Score 9.8 of 10 (high)

Details

Published Mar 31, 2025

Updated: Apr 4, 2025

CWE ID 59

Summary

CVE-2025-30457 is a vulnerability affecting macOS systems where an application can create malicious symlinks to protected regions of the disk. This issue has been addressed through improved validation of symlinks in macOS Ventura 13.7.5, macOS Sequoia 15.4, and macOS Sonoma 14.7.5. The exploitation of this vulnerability could potentially enable unauthorized access or modification of protected files, posing a significant security risk to users.

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MacOS

Affected Vendors

Apple

Advisories, Assessments, and Mitigations

https://app.recordedfuture.com/live/sc/entity/4kzkzI
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-30457
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-30457

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