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Threat Research Knowledge Base Vulnerabilities CVE-2024-44175
CVE-2024-44175
Description
CVE-2024-44175 is a vulnerability in Apple's macOS that could allow an application to access sensitive user data. The issue was addressed by Apple through improved validation of symlinks in macOS Sonoma 14.7.1 and macOS Sequoia 15. According to Kandji's analysis, this vulnerability involves a Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) race condition in the `diskarbitrationd` daemon. By exploiting this flaw, an attacker could escape the application sandbox and escalate privileges to root from a low-privileged user.
Impact
Exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to unauthorized access to sensitive user data by an application. The severity of this issue has been assessed as follows:
NIST assessment
CVSS v3.1 Base Score: 5.5 (Medium)
AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NCISA-ADP assessment
CVSS v3.1 Base Score: 7.5 (High)
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NHas been exploited in the wild
No
Operating systems impacted
- macOS Sonoma (prior to 14.7.1)
- macOS Sequoia (prior to 15)
Additional resources
Apps impacted
No apps impacted
Learn more about it
Kandji Blog: macOS Audit Story
Part 1 of Kandji’s macOS Audit Story examines diskarbitrationd and storagekitd daemons, sandbox escapes, privilege escalations, and TCC bypasses, and how these issues were disclosed to Apple.
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