CVE-2025-43196 Path traversal in macOS

What is CVE-2025-43196?

CVE-2025-43196 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Apple Macos, published on 29 Jul 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A path handling issue was addressed with improved validation. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.6, macOS Sonoma 14.7.7, macOS Ventura 13.7.7. An app may be able to gain root privileges.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-43196?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Apple Macos.

How do I fix CVE-2025-43196?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-43196 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2025-43196 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-43196 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• 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-h6jx-w6h6-hmpp.