CVE-2024-54546 Denial of service in macOS

What is CVE-2024-54546?

CVE-2024-54546 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Apple Macos, published on 10 Mar 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15. An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory.

Weakness: CWE-400

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-54546?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Apple Macos.

How do I fix CVE-2024-54546?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-54546 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2024-54546 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-54546 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Apple Macos

• CVE-2026-65400 Apple macOS Improper Authentication Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2024-44146 Security feature bypass in macOS Critical 10.0
• CVE-2024-44148 Security feature bypass in macOS Critical 10.0
• CVE-2023-38586 Security feature bypass in macOS Critical 10.0
• CVE-2023-40455 Security feature bypass in macOS Critical 10.0

All Apple Macos vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-gc6p-fh5j-358p.