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CVE-2026-43698

An injection issue was addressed with improved validation. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.7.8, macOS Sonoma 14.8.8. An app may be able to gain root privileges.
Lifecycle PUBLISHED1 preserved revisionFact urn:baitaphish:canonical-cve-fact-revision:v2:6f7fe315516855b95829cfe65ebe7d8f170f9b1c72eeb466dcc5ec433ca8303e
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
1

Preserved source conflicts

No provider value was silently selected as the winner.

cwe · 2 assertions

{"cweId":"CWE-88","description":"CWE-88 Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection')","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:6bc27214c537862aa48ee85583aa6142dabc19c81de51a765b6fabf5489074b5 · sha256:76ce91318f4b5d77… · /containers/adp/0/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0

{"description":"An app may be able to gain root privileges","lang":"en"}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:6bc27214c537862aa48ee85583aa6142dabc19c81de51a765b6fabf5489074b5 · sha256:76ce91318f4b5d77… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0

Affected products and versions

1 source assertion
{"product":"macOS","vendor":"Apple","versions":[{"lessThan":"14.8.8","status":"affected","version":"0","versionType":"custom"},{"lessThan":"15.7.8","status":"affected","version":"0","versionType":"custom"}]}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:6bc27214c537862aa48ee85583aa6142dabc19c81de51a765b6fabf5489074b5 · sha256:76ce91318f4b5d77… · /containers/cna/affected/0

Provider-owned CVSS observations

1 source assertion
{"metric":{"attackComplexity":"LOW","attackVector":"LOCAL","availabilityImpact":"HIGH","baseScore":7.8,"baseSeverity":"HIGH","confidentialityImpact":"HIGH","integrityImpact":"HIGH","privilegesRequired":"LOW","scope":"UNCHANGED","userInteraction":"NONE","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:6bc27214c537862aa48ee85583aa6142dabc19c81de51a765b6fabf5489074b5 · sha256:76ce91318f4b5d77… · /containers/adp/0/metrics/0/cvssV3_1

CWE assertions

2 source assertions
{"cweId":"CWE-88","description":"CWE-88 Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection')","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:6bc27214c537862aa48ee85583aa6142dabc19c81de51a765b6fabf5489074b5 · sha256:76ce91318f4b5d77… · /containers/adp/0/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0
{"description":"An app may be able to gain root privileges","lang":"en"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:6bc27214c537862aa48ee85583aa6142dabc19c81de51a765b6fabf5489074b5 · sha256:76ce91318f4b5d77… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0

Source references

2 source assertions
{"url":"https://support.apple.com/en-us/128071"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:6bc27214c537862aa48ee85583aa6142dabc19c81de51a765b6fabf5489074b5 · sha256:76ce91318f4b5d77… · /containers/cna/references/0
{"url":"https://support.apple.com/en-us/128072"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:6bc27214c537862aa48ee85583aa6142dabc19c81de51a765b6fabf5489074b5 · sha256:76ce91318f4b5d77… · /containers/cna/references/1

Attribution and limitations

  • CVE Program CVEList V5: Reproduce the MITRE copyright designation and CVE license in copies. Source →

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