This issue was addressed with improved validation of symlinks. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.3, macOS Sonoma 14.7.3, macOS Ventura 13.7.3. A malicious app may be able to create symlinks to protected regions of the disk.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
4.4 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS
0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 20% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)