{"id":70243,"date":"2025-09-16T14:31:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T11:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-10016-local-privilege-escalation-in-sparkle-autoupdate-daemon\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T14:31:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T11:01:48","slug":"cve-2025-10016-local-privilege-escalation-in-sparkle-autoupdate-daemon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-10016-local-privilege-escalation-in-sparkle-autoupdate-daemon\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2025-10016 &#8211; Local Privilege Escalation in Sparkle Autoupdate Daemon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CVE ID : <\/strong>CVE-2025-10016<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Published : <\/strong> 2025\u5e749\u670816\u65e5 10:03 | 52\u00a0\u5206\u949f ago<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Description : <\/strong>The Sparkle framework includes a helper tool Autoupdate. Due to lack of authentication of connecting clients a local unprivileged attacker  can request installation of crafted malicious PKG file\u00a0by racing to connect to the daemon when other app spawns it as root. This results in local privilege escalation to root privileges. It is worth noting that it is possible to spawn\u00a0Autopudate\u00a0manually via Installer XPC service. However this requires the victim to enter credentials upon system authorization dialog creation that can be modified by the attacker.<\/p>\n<p>This issue was fixed in version 2.7.2<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Severity:<\/strong> 8.8 | HIGH<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-2025-10016 Published : 2025\u5e749\u670816\u65e5 10:03 | 52\u00a0\u5206\u949f ago Description : The Sparkle framework includes a helper tool Autoupdate. Due to lack of authentication of connecting clients a local unprivileged attacker can request installation of crafted malicious PKG file\u00a0by racing to connect to the daemon when other app spawns it as root. This &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-70243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70243","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=70243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}