Apple iOS/iPadOS App path traversal

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A vulnerability categorized as critical has been discovered in Apple iOS and iPadOS. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component App. Such manipulation leads to path traversal. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-30454. Local access is required to approach this attack. No exploit exists. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Apple iOS and iPadOS (affected version unknown). Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality of the component App. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

A path handling issue was addressed with improved validation. This issue is fixed in macOS Sonoma 14.7.5, iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4, tvOS 18.4, macOS Sequoia 15.4. A malicious app may be able to access private information.

The advisory is shared for download at support.apple.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-30454 since 03/22/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 04/01/2025). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1006.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 233570 (macOS 14.x < 14.7.5 Multiple Vulnerabilities (122374)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (233570). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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• Smartphone Operating System

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• Apple

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• iOS
• iPadOS

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.apple.com/

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