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· Jan 12, 2026

bypassing Gatekeeper via symlinks

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tl;dr i found that when macOS’s Archive Utility extracts a ZIP archive containing symlinks, the symlinks themselves do not inherit the com.apple.quarantine extended attribute. when a user executes the symlink, Gatekeeper checks the symlink’s quarantine status (absent) rather than resolving the symlink and checking the target’s status (present). this allows unsigned/un-notarized…

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