CVE-2025-43206 (GCVE-0-2025-43206)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-29 23:54
Modified
2025-07-30 14:27
Severity ?
4.0 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • An app may be able to access protected user data
Summary
A parsing issue in the handling of directory paths was addressed with improved path validation. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.6, macOS Ventura 13.7.7, macOS Sonoma 14.7.7. An app may be able to access protected user data.
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Impacted products
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Apple macOS Version: unspecified   < 15.6
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