CVE-2025-4280

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.

Reserved 2025-05-05 | Published 2025-05-22 | Updated 2025-05-22 | Assigner CERT-PL

Problem types

CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions

Product status

Default status
unaffected

2.0 before 3.6.3
affected

Credits

Karol Mazurek - Afine Team finder

References

cert.pl/posts/2025/05/CVE-2025-4280 third-party-advisory

cert.pl/en/posts/2025/05/CVE-2025-4280 third-party-advisory

poedit.net product

github.com/vslavik/poedit product

github.com/...poedit/security/advisories/GHSA-8fcw-v6gr-hp34 third-party-advisory

cve.org (CVE-2025-4280)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-4280)

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