macOS Sequoia 15.7 Root Priv Escalation via Race Condition
CVE-2025-46284 Published on May 26, 2026
A race condition was addressed with additional validation. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.7, macOS Tahoe 26. An app may be able to gain root privileges.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2025-46284 is exploitable with local system access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is consided to have a high level of attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.
Weakness Type
What is a Race Condition Vulnerability?
The program contains a code sequence that can run concurrently with other code, and the code sequence requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence that is operating concurrently.
CVE-2025-46284 has been classified to as a Race Condition vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2025-46284
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Affected Versions
Apple macOS:- Before 15.7 is affected.
- Before 26 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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