{"id":49310,"date":"2025-06-06T11:36:41","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T11:36:41","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-06-18T05:19:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T11:19:49","slug":"cve-2025-31189-file-quarantine-bypass-vulnerability-in-macos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-31189-file-quarantine-bypass-vulnerability-in-macos\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>CVE-2025-31189: File Quarantine Bypass Vulnerability in macOS<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The CVE-2025-31189 is a critical vulnerability that affects certain versions of macOS, namely Ventura 13.7.5, Sequoia 15.4, and Sonoma 14.7.5. This vulnerability allows an application to potentially break out of its sandbox, leading to possible system compromise or data leakage. The impact of this vulnerability is far-reaching, given the number of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-32309-potential-system-compromise-due-to-remote-file-inclusion-in-php-program\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"56248\">systems running these versions of macOS and the potential<\/a> damage that can be caused if the vulnerability is exploited. Therefore, it&#8217;s imperative for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-3055-critical-arbitrary-file-deletion-vulnerability-in-wp-user-frontend-pro-plugin\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"59162\">users and administrators to understand this vulnerability<\/a> and take the necessary steps to mitigate it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vulnerability Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CVE ID: CVE-2025-31189<br \/>\nSeverity: High (8.2 CVSS score)<br \/>\nAttack Vector: Local<br \/>\nPrivileges Required: Low<br \/>\nUser Interaction: Required<br \/>\nImpact: Potential system compromise or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-48383-django-select2-vulnerability-risking-data-leakage-and-unauthorized-access\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"56141\">data leakage<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Affected Products<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-3167418259\" class=\"ameeb-content-2 ameeb-entity-placement\"><div style=\"border-left: 4px solid #555; padding-left: 20px; margin: 48px 0; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 720px;\">\r\n  <h2 style=\"margin-top: 0; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 600; display: flex; align-items: center; letter-spacing: -0.02em;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"display: inline-flex; align-items: center; margin-right: 10px;\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Best-App-icon-Ameeba.png\" alt=\"Ameeba Chat Icon\" style=\"width: 42px; height: 42px;\" \/>\r\n    <\/a>\r\n    Share secrets securely\r\n  <\/h2>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 14px; color: #d1d5db;\">\r\n    Ameeba is private infrastructure for communication and sensitive work built on encrypted identity instead of exposed corporate identity systems.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 18px; color: #a1a1aa;\">\r\n    Passwords, credentials, confidential files, screenshots, internal discussions, sensitive AI context, and private coordination should not become exposed across ordinary communication platforms.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <ul style=\"list-style: none; padding-left: 0; margin-bottom: 24px; color: #e4e4e7;\">\r\n    <li style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">\u2022 Encrypted identity<\/li>\r\n    <li style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">\u2022 Private Spaces for organizations and teams<\/li>\r\n    <li style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">\u2022 End-to-end encrypted chat, calls, files, and notes<\/li>\r\n    <li style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">\u2022 Sensitive AI work and protected collaboration<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Built for information that cannot leak<\/li>\r\n  <\/ul>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: 600; margin-bottom: 24px; color: #ffffff;\">\r\n    Our mission is to secure human work alongside AI.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <div style=\"display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 12px;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\/download\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 8px; font-weight: 500;\">\r\n      Download Ameeba\r\n    <\/a>\r\n\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ffffff; color: #ffffff; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 8px; font-weight: 500;\">\r\n      Learn More\r\n    <\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Product | Affected Versions<\/p>\n<p>macOS Ventura | Prior to 13.7.5<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-31263-critical-memory-handling-vulnerability-could-lead-to-system-compromise-or-data-leakage-in-macos-sequoia-15-4\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"57154\">macOS Sequoia<\/a> | Prior to 15.4<br \/>\nmacOS Sonoma | Prior to 14.7.5<\/p>\n<p><strong>How the Exploit Works<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-45997-exploiting-file-upload-vulnerability-in-web-based-pharmacy-product-management-system\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"56863\">exploit takes advantage of a weakness in the file<\/a> quarantine system of the affected macOS versions. In normal operations, macOS uses sandboxing to restrict an application&#8217;s access to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2023-42977-path-handling-vulnerability-that-risks-data-leakage-and-system-compromise\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"57155\">system resources and data<\/a>. However, this vulnerability allows an application to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-27700-critical-bypass-of-carrier-restrictions-vulnerability\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"56152\">bypass these restrictions<\/a>. If an attacker can get a user to run a malicious application, the application can break out of its sandbox and gain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-39350-unauthorized-access-vulnerability-in-rocket-apps-wproject\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"55670\">unauthorized access<\/a> to system resources and data.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conceptual Example Code<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-1507402676\" class=\"ameeb-content ameeb-entity-placement\"><div class=\"poptin-embedded\" data-id=\"f6b387694f681\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/div>\n<p>A conceptual example of how the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-1277-memory-corruption-vulnerability-in-autodesk-applications-through-malicious-pdf-files\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"57153\">vulnerability might be exploited is an application<\/a> that sends a request to change its own sandbox restrictions, like this:<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"\" data-line=\"\">$ sandbox-exec -n no-network \/path\/to\/vulnerable\/application\n# The malicious app then performs actions it normally wouldn&#039;t be able to:\n$ touch ~\/Documents\/ImportantFile\n$ echo &quot;Sensitive data&quot; &gt; ~\/Documents\/ImportantFile<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>This conceptual example illustrates how a malicious app could break out of its sandbox and perform actions it normally wouldn&#8217;t be able to, such as creating and writing to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2024-52035-catdoc-ole-document-file-allocation-table-parser-integer-overflow-vulnerability\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"57546\">file in the user&#8217;s Documents<\/a> folder.<br \/>\nIn this example, `sandbox-exec -n no-network \/path\/to\/vulnerable\/application` is a command that an attacker could use to execute the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-24274-input-validation-issue-exploitable-via-malicious-app-on-macos\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"59582\">malicious app<\/a> with sandbox restrictions in place, and the subsequent commands are examples of actions the app could perform after bypassing these restrictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview The CVE-2025-31189 is a critical vulnerability that affects certain versions of macOS, namely Ventura 13.7.5, Sequoia 15.4, and Sonoma 14.7.5. This vulnerability allows an application to potentially break out of its sandbox, leading to possible system compromise or data leakage. The impact of this vulnerability is far-reaching, given the number of systems running these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"vendor":[77],"product":[],"attack_vector":[],"asset_type":[],"severity":[],"exploit_status":[],"class_list":["post-49310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","vendor-apple"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49310"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53270,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49310\/revisions\/53270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49310"},{"taxonomy":"vendor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vendor?post=49310"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=49310"},{"taxonomy":"attack_vector","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/attack_vector?post=49310"},{"taxonomy":"asset_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/asset_type?post=49310"},{"taxonomy":"severity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/severity?post=49310"},{"taxonomy":"exploit_status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exploit_status?post=49310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}