Vulnerabilities > CVE-2024-40859 - Improper Preservation of Permissions vulnerability in Apple Macos

CVSS 5.5 - MEDIUM

Attack vector

LOCAL

Attack complexity

LOW

Privileges required

LOW

Confidentiality impact

HIGH

Integrity impact

NONE

Availability impact

NONE

local

low complexity

apple

CWE-281

NVD

Published: 2024-09-17

Updated: 2024-09-24

Summary

A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15. An app may be able to access user-sensitive data.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part	Description	Count
OS	Apple Apple Macos 10.15.7 Apple Macos 11.6.1 Apple Macos 11.6.2 Apple Macos 11.6.3 Apple Macos 11.6.5 Apple Macos 11.6.6 Apple Macos 11.6.7 Apple Macos 11.6.8 Apple Macos 11.7 Apple Macos 11.7.1 Apple Macos 11.7.2 Apple Macos 11.7.3 Apple Macos 11.7.5 Apple Macos 11.7.7 Apple Macos 11.7.9 Apple Macos 12.0 Apple Macos 12.0.1 Apple Macos 12.1 Apple Macos 12.2 Apple Macos 12.2.1 Apple Macos 12.3 Apple Macos 12.4 Apple Macos 12.5 Apple Macos 12.6 Apple Macos 12.6.1 Apple Macos 12.6.2 Apple Macos 12.6.3 Apple Macos 12.6.4 Apple Macos 12.6.6 Apple Macos 12.6.7 Apple Macos 12.6.8 Apple Macos 12.7 Apple Macos 12.7.2 Apple Macos 12.7.3 Apple Macos 13.0 Apple Macos 13.0.1 Apple Macos 13.1 Apple Macos 13.2 Apple Macos 13.3 Apple Macos 13.3.3 Apple Macos 13.4 Apple Macos 13.5 Apple Macos 13.6 Apple Macos 13.6.1 Apple Macos 13.6.2 Apple Macos 13.6.3 Apple Macos 13.6.4 Apple Macos 14.0 Apple Macos 14.1 Apple Macos 14.1.1 Apple Macos 14.1.2 Apple Macos 14.2 Apple Macos 14.2.1 Apple Macos 14.3	66

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

CWE-281 - Improper Preservation of Permissions

References

https://support.apple.com/en-us/121238