Quote:A vulnerability in the latest macOS release could allow a malicious application to access restricted Safari data, an application developer has discovered. 

Apple last year aimed to boost the privacy protections in macOS with the addition of new features in 10.14 Mojave, but Mac applications developer Jeff Johnson says that the platform actually fails to protect users better than before.

The issue, he says, is that macOS Mojave is restricting access to certain folders to only a few applications, but that this protection can be bypassed without the application having to acquire permissions from the user or the system. 

The issue impacts all version of Mojave, including macOS Mojave 10.14.3 Supplemental Update released on February 7, he says. 

One of the folders with restricted access is ~/Library/Safari. Only a few apps have access to the folder, such as Finder, and users can’t even list the content of that folder using the Terminal, Johnson reveals.