CVE-2025-43461_CVE-2025-43461

5.5 / 10

MEDIUM

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

Description

This issue was addressed with improved validation of symlinks. This issue is fixed in macOS Tahoe 26.1. An app may be able to access protected user data.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-43461

Source apple

Published Dec 12, 2025 at 20:56

Modified Dec 15, 2025 at 13:39

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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