CVE-2025-43298highCWE-41

CVE-2025-43298: high-severity vulnerability in Apple macOS

Published 15 Sep 2025 · Updated 02 Apr 2026

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21Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 7.8epss 0.2%

A parsing issue in the handling of directory paths was addressed with improved path validation. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.7, macOS Sonoma 14.8, macOS Tahoe 26. An app may be able to gain root privileges.

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

Apple · macOS

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References

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Sep/53 http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Sep/54 http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Sep/55 https://support.apple.com/en-us/125110 https://support.apple.com/en-us/125111 https://support.apple.com/en-us/125112