CVE-2024-44264 (GCVE-0-2024-44264)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-10-28 21:08
Modified
2026-04-02 18:15
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • A malicious app may be able to create symlinks to protected regions of the disk
Summary
This issue was addressed with improved validation of symlinks. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.1, macOS Sonoma 14.7.1, macOS Ventura 13.7.1. A malicious app may be able to create symlinks to protected regions of the disk.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Apple macOS Version: 0   < 13.7.1
Version: 0   < 14.7.1
Version: 0   < 15.1
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