CVE-2025-4280 MEDIUM

CVE-2025-4280: TCC Bypass via Inherited Permissions in Bundled Interpreter in Poedit.app

Vendor Poedit
Product Poedit
Weakness CWE-276
Published May 22, 2025
Last update May 22, 2025

CVSS base score

4.8/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Confidentiality
Integrity

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

May 22, 2025 CVE published
May 22, 2025 Record updated