medium5.5
CVE-2022-22582
A validation issue existed in the handling of symlinks.
Impact
A validation issue existed in the handling of symlinks. This issue was addressed with improved validation of symlinks. This issue is fixed in Security Update 2022-003 Catalina, macOS Big Sur 11.6.5, macOS Monterey 12.3. A local user may be able to write arbitrary files.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Apple | Mac Os X | Version 10.15.7 |
| Apple | Macos | from 11.0 before 11.6.5 from 12.0.0 before 12.3 |