CVE-2025-4280CWE-276

TCC Bypass via Inherited Permissions in Bundled Interpreter in Poedit.app

Medium · published May 22, 2025

CVSS v4.0
4.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
7.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
4.8 · MEDIUM
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
EPSS
0.00183 · 7.5th percentile
Weakness
CWE-276 · Incorrect Default Permissions
Published
2025-05-22T09:59Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 22 MAY 09:59Z
    TCC Bypass via Inherited Permissions in Bundled Interpreter in Poedit.app
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