Vulnerawa on macOS: Fixing the Silent Launch Failure After Gatekeeper Approval

Vulnerawa (app) on macOS: Why It Wouldn’t Open — and What Finally Fixed It I installed Vulnerawa (app) last week on my MacBook Air M2 (macOS Sonoma 14.4) because I needed a lightweight security scanner to run against a staging server. Nothing heavy. Just a quick vulnerability sweep before pushing changes live. I grabbed the build through an OrchardKit listing, downloaded the macOS release, and expected a routine setup. It wasn’t routine. The first launch gave me the classic: “Vulnerawa can’t be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software.” Standard Gatekeeper behavior. No panic. Apple’s documentation on this is pretty clear: https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/open-a-mac-app-from-an-unidentified-developer-mh40616/mac So I right-clicked → Open → Confirmed. The dialog appeared once. I approved it. The app icon bounced in the Dock… and then nothing. It vanished. No crash report. No error window. Just silence. That’s when I knew this wasn’t just Gatekeeper being cautio