CVE-2025-43247 Privilege escalation in macOS

What is CVE-2025-43247?

CVE-2025-43247 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Apple Macos, published on 29 Jul 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.6, macOS Sonoma 14.7.7, macOS Ventura 13.7.7. A malicious app with root privileges may be able to modify the contents of system files.

Weakness: CWE-732

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-43247?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Apple Macos.

How do I fix CVE-2025-43247?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-43247 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2025-43247 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-43247 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-c7jg-879m-v859.