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It's not a vulnerability, as the dialog says "run a program" and prompts for confirmation. It's up to the user's imagination to consider what a program can do.
by lonelappde 7y ago
It's not a vulnerability, as the dialog says "run a program" and prompts for confirmation.
It's up to the user's imagination to consider what a program can do.
The prompt is terribly worded though.
- ddebernardy 7y agoIt seems macOS could use virtualization or permissions to run these scripts in some throw away environment to get rid of the problem altogether. Preflight check programs shouldn't be able to write anything to disk.