CVE-2025-4280
TCC Bypass via Inherited Permissions in Bundled Interpreter in Poedit.app
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 4.8 Medium
- Published
- May 22, 2025
- Updated
- May 22, 2025
- Reserved
- May 5, 2025
Description
MacOS version of Poedit bundles a Python interpreter that inherits the Transparency, Consent, and Control (TCC) permissions granted by the user to the main application bundle. An attacker with local user access can invoke this interpreter with arbitrary commands or scripts, leveraging the application's previously granted TCC permissions to access user's files in privacy-protected folders without triggering user prompts. Accessing other resources beyond previously granted TCC permissions will prompt the user for approval in the name of Poedit, potentially disguising attacker's malicious intent.
This issue has been fixed in 3.6.3 version of Poedit.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 4.8 Medium | CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N | CERT-PL |
Weaknesses
- CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
PoeditPoedit |
|
References
- https://cert.pl/posts/2025/05/CVE-2025-4280third-party-advisory
- https://cert.pl/en/posts/2025/05/CVE-2025-4280third-party-advisory
- https://poedit.net/product
- https://github.com/vslavik/poeditproduct
- https://github.com/vslavik/poedit/security/advisories/GHSA-8fcw-v6gr-hp34third-party-advisory
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