VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2024-23285

This issue was addressed with improved handling of symlinks.

MEDIUM 5.5EPSS 0.25%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.25%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

This issue was addressed with improved handling of symlinks. This issue is fixed in macOS Sonoma 14.4. An app may be able to create symlinks to protected regions of the disk.

CVSS 3.1: 5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS: 0.25% probability · 16th percentile
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-59, CWE-61
Affected: apple/macos
Source: product-security@apple.com

References

https://support.apple.com/en-us/120895
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Mar/21Mailing List
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT214084Vendor Advisory
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT214084

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.