{"id":63501,"date":"2025-05-22T15:31:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T12:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-4280-poedit-for-macos-privilege-escalation-vulnerability\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T15:31:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T12:01:39","slug":"cve-2025-4280-poedit-for-macos-privilege-escalation-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-4280-poedit-for-macos-privilege-escalation-vulnerability\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2025-4280 &#8211; Poedit for MacOS Privilege Escalation Vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CVE ID : <\/strong>CVE-2025-4280<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Published : <\/strong> May 22, 2025, 10:15 a.m. | 59\u00a0minutes ago<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Description : <\/strong>MacOS version of Poedit bundles a\u00a0Python interpreter that inherits the Transparency, Consent, and Control (TCC) permissions<br \/>\ngranted by the user to the main application bundle. An attacker with local user access can<br \/>\ninvoke this interpreter with arbitrary commands or scripts, leveraging the<br \/>\napplication&#8217;s previously granted TCC permissions to access user&#8217;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&#8217;s malicious intent.<\/p>\n<p>This issue has been fixed in 3.6.3 version of Poedit.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Severity:<\/strong> 0.0 | NA<br \/>\n<br \/>\nVisit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2025-4280 Published : May 22, 2025, 10:15 a.m. | 59\u00a0minutes ago Description : MacOS version of Poedit bundles a\u00a0Python 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 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}