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Medium · 4.8 CVE-2025-10015 EUVD-2025-29540GHSA-fvpx-gx3c-pq7f

TCC Bypass via Downloader XPC Service in Sparkle

Published Sep 16, 2025 · Updated Sep 16, 2025 · Assigned by CERT-PL

Description

The Sparkle framework includes an XPC service Downloader.xpc, by default this service is private to the application its bundled with. A local unprivileged attacker can register this XPC service globally which will inherit TCC permissions of the application.
Lack of validation of connecting client allows the attacker to copy TCC-protected files to an arbitrary location. Access to other resources beyond granted-permissions requires user interaction with a system prompt asking for permission.

This issue was fixed in version 2.7.2

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Sparkle Project Sparkle < 2.7.2 2.7.2

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