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Medium · 5.5 CVE-2025-55002 EUVD-2025-211274

JupyterLab Desktop: TCC Bypass via Misconfigured Node Fuses

Published Nov 6, 2026 · Updated Nov 11, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

JupyterLab Desktop is the cross-platform desktop application for JupyterLab. Prior to 4.6.2-1, JupyterLab Desktop for macOS shipped with Electron's RunAsNode fuse enabled, allowing ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE to execute arbitrary Node.js code in the application process. An attacker who can already execute code as the current user can therefore run code in JupyterLab Desktop's context and inherit TCC permissions previously granted to the application, including access to protected Documents, Desktop, or Downloads folders without another macOS prompt. Exploitation requires existing local code execution and prior TCC grants; it does not provide initial or remote code execution. Windows and Linux are not affected. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.6.2-1.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
jupyterlab jupyterlab-desktop < 4.6.2-1 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 jupyterlab No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS jupyterlab No fix yet —

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