PT-2025-13924 · Apple · Apple Macos

Published 2025-03-31 · Updated 2025-04-04 · CVE-2025-24242

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

4.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions macOS versions prior to 15.4

Description The issue allows an app with root privileges to potentially access private information due to improper handling of symlinks. This has been addressed with improved handling of symlinks.

Recommendations For versions prior to 15.4, update to macOS Sequoia 15.4 to resolve the issue.

Fix

LPE

Information Disclosure

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-24242

Affected Products

Apple Macos

References · 8

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-24242 · Vendor Advisory
• https://support.apple.com/en-us/122373 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-24242 · Security Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/117152 · Telegram Post
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Apr/8 · Note
• https://twitter.com/dailycve/status/1908220612344008709 · Twitter Post
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2025-24242 · Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1906841506268205315 · Twitter Post