CVE-2025-54871 | THREATINT

Description

Electron Capture facilitates video playback for screen-sharing and capture. In versions 2.19.1 and below, the elecap app on macOS allows local unprivileged users to bypass macOS TCC privacy protections by enabling ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE. This environment variable allows arbitrary Node.js code to be executed via the -e flag, which runs inside the main Electron context, inheriting any previously granted TCC entitlements (such as access to Documents, Downloads, etc.). This issue is fixed in version 2.20.0.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-07-31 | Published 2025-08-05 | Updated 2025-08-05 | Assigner GitHub_M

MEDIUM: 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Problem types

CWE-284: Improper Access Control

Product status

< 2.20.0

affected

References

github.com/...apture/security/advisories/GHSA-8849-p3j4-jq4h exploit

github.com/...apture/security/advisories/GHSA-8849-p3j4-jq4h

github.com/...ommit/3837f54e75911bb99fa45cfa138a5e401d16f531

github.com/steveseguin/electroncapture/releases/tag/2.20.0

cve.org (CVE-2025-54871)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-54871)

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