CVE-2025-43381 Path traversal in macOS

What is CVE-2025-43381?

CVE-2025-43381 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Apple Macos, published on 12 Dec 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

This issue was addressed with improved handling of symlinks. This issue is fixed in macOS Tahoe 26.1. A malicious app may be able to delete protected user data.

Weakness: CWE-59

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-43381?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Apple Macos.

How do I fix CVE-2025-43381?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-43381 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-2025-43381 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-43381 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• 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-6jcc-g9h6-fghc.