macOS Spotlight Vulnerability Discovered by Microsoft

svish · Jul 29, 2025

Glad to hear that the vulnerability is fixed now and that it was not exploited. Will be nice if such issues don't happen in the first place.

StuBeck · Jul 29, 2025

Roller said:
I don't often complain about headlines here, but unless I'm missing something, this one strikes me as misleading. I read it and the article thinking that this was a new, unaddressed vulnerability, only to find that it was taken care of by Apple a few months ago.

It doesn't say anything about it being active, but yes, its meant to incite interest. This is becoming more common here.

Mac Overdose said:
Microsoft trying to exploit Apple vulnerabilities, and now the Dutch lawyer prosecuting Bill Gates was arrested. I don't think these things are unique unto themselves.

They weren't exploiting, this is literally what every tech company with a security arm does, which is discover issues and help their colleagues resolve them. Its done to both help the industry as a whole, but also as a form of marketing.

I also think if you are talking about Bill Gates in 2025 and think he has an active role in Microsoft, you are very outdated. He left fully in 2020 after having a very reduced role from 2014.

sich · Jul 29, 2025

StoneShaders said:
and yet Microsoft stores plain screenshots for their Recall feature, which viruses and all sorts of bad actors could've easily exploited? …it was only after receiving public backlash that they implemented encryption

In any case, kudos to them for reporting this vulnerability to Apple first then only disclose it after the patch has been widely deployed.

Not screenshots but snapshots, and the information is encrypted.