CVE-2024-44264: Apple macOS

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

This issue was addressed with improved validation of symlinks. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.1, macOS Sonoma 14.7.1, macOS Ventura 13.7.1. A malicious app may be able to create symlinks to protected regions of the disk.

Affected products

• Apple macOS: before 13.7.1 (fixed in 13.7.1); from 14.0, before 14.7.1 (fixed in 14.7.1)

Published 2024-10-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.