Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-30452

Critical

Published: 31 March 2025

Published
31 March 2025
Modified
02 April 2026
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0070 72.0th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Description

Adversaries may abuse Unix shell commands and scripts for execution.

Security Summary

CVE-2025-30452 is an input validation issue, classified under CWE-20 (Improper Input Validation), affecting macOS Sequoia prior to version 15.4, macOS Sonoma prior to 14.7.5, and macOS Ventura prior to 13.7.5. The vulnerability was addressed by implementing improved checks, as detailed in Apple's security updates published on 2025-03-31.

The vulnerability carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H), indicating critical severity. Remote attackers require no privileges or user interaction to exploit it over the network with low complexity, potentially achieving high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, such as arbitrary code execution or system compromise.

Apple's security advisories, available at support.apple.com/en-us/122373, 122374, and 122375, confirm the issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.4, macOS Sonoma 14.7.5, and macOS Ventura 13.7.5. Security practitioners should prioritize updating affected systems, with further technical details in the Full Disclosure mailing list archives at seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Apr/10 and /Apr/8.

Details

CWE(s)
CWE-20

Affected Products

apple
macos
13.0 — 13.7.5 · 14.0 — 14.7.5 · 15.0 — 15.4

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
T1059.004 Unix Shell Execution
Adversaries may abuse Unix shell commands and scripts for execution.
Why these techniques?

Remote unauthenticated input validation flaw enables arbitrary code execution on macOS, directly mapping to public-facing application exploitation for initial access and Unix shell command execution.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

References