CVE-2025-46284

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Race Condition in macOS Leading to Root Privilege Escalation

Publication date: 2026-05-26

Last updated on: 2026-05-27

Assigner: Apple Inc.

Description

A race condition was addressed with additional validation. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.7, macOS Tahoe 26. An app may be able to gain root privileges.

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Meta Information

Published

2026-05-26

Last Modified

2026-05-27

Generated

2026-07-06

AI Q&A

2026-05-27

EPSS Evaluated

2026-07-05

NVD

CVE-2025-46284

EUVD

EUVD-2025-209939

Affected Vendors & Products

Vendor	Product	Version / Range
apple	macos	From 15.0 (inc) to 15.7 (exc)

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Exploitability

CWE

KEV

CWE ID	Description
CWE-362	The product contains a concurrent code sequence that requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence operating concurrently.

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Executive Summary

This vulnerability is a race condition issue in macOS Sequoia and macOS Tahoe. It was addressed by adding additional validation. Due to this race condition, an application may be able to gain root privileges on the affected systems.

Impact Analysis

The impact of this vulnerability is that an application could exploit the race condition to gain root privileges. This means an attacker could potentially execute code with the highest level of system access, leading to full control over the affected device.

Mitigation Strategies

To mitigate this vulnerability, update your system to macOS Sequoia 15.7 or macOS Tahoe 26 where the issue is fixed.

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