{"id":59906,"date":"2025-08-05T23:03:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T23:03:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-08-30T22:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T04:34:08","slug":"cve-2025-43275-critical-race-condition-vulnerability-in-macos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-43275-critical-race-condition-vulnerability-in-macos\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>CVE-2025-43275: Critical Race Condition Vulnerability in macOS<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A critical race condition vulnerability, CVE-2025-43275, has been identified in multiple versions of macOS, including Sequoia 15.6, Sonoma 14.7.7, and Ventura 13.7.7. This susceptibility could potentially allow an application to break out of its sandbox, leading to a system compromise or data leakage. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-47998-severe-heap-based-buffer-overflow-vulnerability-in-windows-routing-and-remote-access-service\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"67499\">vulnerability is of significant concern due to its high severity<\/a> score, indicating a potential for extensive damage if successfully exploited.<br \/>\nThe broad user base of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-43237-critical-out-of-bounds-write-vulnerability-in-macos-sequoia\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"69473\">macOS elevates the importance of this vulnerability<\/a>, making millions of devices worldwide potentially susceptible. This vulnerability&#8217;s potential to escape from the sandboxing mechanism that confines applications to their dedicated memory space could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-41668-critical-file-replacement-leading-to-unauthorized-access\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"66316\">lead to unauthorized<\/a> access and control over others&#8217; software and data.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vulnerability Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CVE ID: CVE-2025-43275<br \/>\nSeverity: Critical (9.8)<br \/>\nAttack Vector: Local<br \/>\nPrivileges Required: None<br \/>\nUser Interaction: Required<br \/>\nImpact: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-45346-sql-injection-vulnerability-in-bacula-web-resulting-in-potential-system-compromise\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"68394\">System compromise and potential<\/a> data leakage<\/p>\n<p><strong>Affected Products<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-1949898278\" 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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-43253-arbitrary-binary-launch-vulnerability-in-macos-sequoia-and-sonoma\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"69513\">macOS Sequoia<\/a> | 15.6<br \/>\nmacOS Sonoma | 14.7.7<br \/>\nmacOS Ventura | 13.7.7<\/p>\n<p><strong>How the Exploit Works<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-25214-race-condition-vulnerability-in-wwbn-avideo-14-4-leading-to-arbitrary-code-execution\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"67498\">vulnerability stems from a race condition<\/a> in the way macOS handles certain application processes. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-54655-race-condition-vulnerability-in-virtualization-base-module\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"75697\">race condition<\/a> occurs when the system&#8217;s behavior is dependent on the sequence or timing of events and the system doesn&#8217;t handle the sequence correctly. In this case, a malicious application could exploit the race condition to break out of its sandbox, gaining <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-50105-critical-vulnerability-in-oracle-universal-work-queue-allowing-unauthorized-data-access\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"68662\">unauthorized access to system resources or data<\/a> that it would typically be restricted from accessing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conceptual Example Code<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-4000601390\" 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>Here&#8217;s a conceptual example of how the vulnerability might be exploited. In this scenario, a malicious application is running on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-33077-local-stack-based-buffer-overflow-vulnerability-in-ibm-engineering-systems-design-rhapsody\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"68393\">vulnerable macOS system<\/a>. It might manipulate timing or sequence of events to exploit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-53132-critical-race-condition-vulnerability-in-windows-win32k-grfx\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"75703\">race condition<\/a>:<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"\" data-line=\"\"># This is a conceptual example and not actual exploit code\nmalicious_app --exploit-race-condition --gain-unauthorized-access<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>The command above symbolizes the malicious app exploiting the race condition to escalate its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-49747-unauthorized-privilege-elevation-in-azure-machine-learning\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"68745\">privileges and gain unauthorized<\/a> access to system resources.<br \/>\nHowever, it&#8217;s important to note that actual exploitation would be more complex and require detailed knowledge of macOS internals and the specific conditions required to trigger the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-8880-high-severity-race-condition-vulnerability-in-v8-of-google-chrome\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"76143\">race<\/a> condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview A critical race condition vulnerability, CVE-2025-43275, has been identified in multiple versions of macOS, including Sequoia 15.6, Sonoma 14.7.7, and Ventura 13.7.7. This susceptibility could potentially allow an application to break out of its sandbox, leading to a system compromise or data leakage. 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