Apple macOS App path traversal

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A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in Apple macOS. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component App. Performing a manipulation results in path traversal. This vulnerability was named CVE-2025-30454. The attack needs to be approached locally. There is no available exploit. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Apple macOS (affected version not known). This affects some unknown functionality of the component App. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

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 at support.apple.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-30454 since 03/22/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1006 for this issue.

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). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• Operating System

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• Apple

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• macOS

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.apple.com/

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