CVE-2024-40594

Impact

The OpenAI ChatGPT app before 2024-07-05 for macOS opts out of the sandbox, and stores conversations in cleartext in a location accessible to other apps.

Affected packages

This record carries no package version data, so it cannot be matched against a dependency list automatically. Read the advisory and compare your version by hand.

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/07/chatgpts-much-heralded-mac-app-was-storing-conversations-as-plain-text/
• https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/3/24191636/openai-chatgpt-mac-app-conversations-plain-text
• https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/07/chatgpts-much-heralded-mac-app-was-storing-conversations-as-plain-text/
• https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/3/24191636/openai-chatgpt-mac-app-conversations-plain-text