GATEKEEPER BYPASS: UNCOVERING WEAKNESSES IN A MACOS SECURITY MECHANISM

Summary from the TLDR InfoSec newsletter

macOS may not properly enforce the quarantine attribute, potentially allowing a bypass of the Gatekeeper security mechanism. Gatekeeper is designed to ensure only trusted software runs on systems by validating applications before execution. To reduce the risk of malicious Gatekeeper bypasses, developers should enforce the attribute on all files their applications handle.