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HM Surf is an improper privilege-management vulnerability in macOS Safari’s handling of Transparency, Consent, and Control (TCC) privacy preferences on MDM-managed devices. Safari’s privileged TCC entitlement and locally maintained, per-origin privacy-policy state could be abused by altering the effective user home-directory context and modifying Safari policy files. This allowed an application to bypass certain user privacy preferences without presenting the expected permission prompts. Apple removed the vulnerable code in macOS Sequoia 15.
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A security flaw in Apple's Transparency, Consent, and Control (TCC) framework in macOS that could allow bypassing user privacy controls and accessing data. The flaw could be exploited via Safari and has been patched in macOS Sequoia 15.
A medium-severity vulnerability in macOS Safari (CVE-2024-44133, also called HM Surf) allows attackers to bypass the TCC security layer, potentially granting unauthorized access to sensitive data such as camera, microphone, browsing data, and device location. The flaw leverages Safari's special entitlements and manipulation of configuration files to escalate privileges for malicious websites.
A vulnerability in macOS Safari (CVE-2024-44133, 'HM Surf') allows attackers to bypass the Transparency, Consent, and Control (TCC) protections and gain unauthorized access to sensitive user data, including camera, microphone, location, and browsing history, on MDM-managed devices.
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