🛡️ CVE-2025-43298 — macos

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

• Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
• Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
• Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
• User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
• Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
• Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
• Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
• Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-43298 is classified as CWE-41: Improper Resolution of Path Equivalence. The product is vulnerable to file system contents disclosure through path equivalence.

Affected software

CVE-2025-43298 is recorded against 1 package.

• macos (from 15.0 up to 15.7)

Timeline and source

Published on 15 September 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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Other advisories for this package

macos has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

• CVE-2026-65400 (9.8 Critical, published 6 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-43739 (5.5 Medium, published 27 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-43776 (7.8 High, published 27 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-43822 (9.8 Critical, published 27 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-64728 (6.5 Medium, published 27 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-64774 (9.8 Critical, published 27 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-43763 (5.5 Medium, published 27 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-43805 (9.8 Critical, published 27 Jul 2026)

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-41: Improper Resolution of Path Equivalence) in other software:

• CVE-2026-66064 (5.3 Medium, published 28 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-50568 (3.6 Low, published 28 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-5816 (8.0 High, published 24 Apr 2026)
• CVE-2026-34510 (5.3 Medium, published 1 Apr 2026)
• CVE-2026-23674 (7.5 High, published 10 Mar 2026)
• CVE-2025-58290 (3.3 Low, published 11 Oct 2025)
• CVE-2025-54107 (4.3 Medium, published 9 Sep 2025)
• CVE-2024-8765 (7.3 High, published 20 Mar 2025)

Details

Affected Packages

References