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Medium · 4.8 CVE-2025-4280 EUVD-2025-16108

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

Published May 22, 2025 · Updated May 22, 2025 · Assigned by CERT-PL

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Poedit Poedit 2.0 – < 3.6.3 3.6.3

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