CVE-2025-10016

Description

The Sparkle framework includes a helper tool Autoupdate. Due to lack of authentication of connecting clients a local unprivileged attacker can request installation of crafted malicious PKG file by racing to connect to the daemon when other app spawns it as root. This results in local privilege escalation to root privileges. It is worth noting that it is possible to spawn Autopudate manually via Installer XPC service. However this requires the victim to enter credentials upon system authorization dialog creation that can be modified by the attacker. This issue was fixed in version 2.7.2

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-09-05 | Published 2025-09-16 | Updated 2025-09-16 | Assigner CERT-PL

Problem types

CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization

Product status

Credits

Karol Mazurek - Afine Team finder

References

cert.pl/en/posts/2025/09/CVE-2025-10015 third-party-advisory

github.com/sparkle-project/Sparkle product

github.com/sparkle-project/Sparkle/discussions/2764 vendor-advisory

cve.org (CVE-2025-10016)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-10016)

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