CVE-2025-43381_CVE-2025-43381

5.5 / 10

MEDIUM

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

Description

This issue was addressed with improved handling of symlinks. This issue is fixed in macOS Tahoe 26.1. A malicious app may be able to delete protected user data.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-43381

Source apple

Published Dec 12, 2025 at 20:56

Modified Dec 15, 2025 at 13:40

Affected Product

Vendor Apple

Product macOS

Version unspecified

Affected Versions Apple macOS unspecified

CWE Classification

CWE-59

References

support.apple.com /en-us/125634

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