CVE-2025-43446: Apple macOS

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

This issue was addressed with improved validation of symlinks. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.7.2, macOS Sonoma 14.8.2, macOS Tahoe 26.1. An app may be able to modify protected parts of the file system.

Affected products

• Apple macOS: before 14.8.2 (fixed in 14.8.2); from 15.0, before 15.7.2 (fixed in 15.7.2)

Published 2025-11-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.